As many around the world mourned Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, many descendants of those subjected to colonial rule had a more nuanced view of her legacy.
“I guess I had mixed feelings because on one hand I felt sad about her passing since she is such an iconic woman and she’s a mother and a grandmother,” Pritika Chowdhry, a Chicago artist of Indian descent, said Friday. “But on the other hand, there was a sort of feeling that she had this very long reign, in a very powerful role and she could have done so much more to acknowledge the wrongs associated with Britain’s colonial history.”
