Why? If 169m were born during that period and 100m lost their lives because of British policy, then it still means that 100m lives were lost unnecessarily.
This is not " Just as shark migration patterns were not changed by slavery. " This is a European country travelling halfway across the world and murdering a indepdant nation. Stealing their exports, and reselling it on the global market. Using their land to produce opium where they later used to invade china and kill their local population.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade
You can deny it all you want, but the history will remain.
There's the 3 million that have died due to the bengal famine.
https://newint.org/features/2021/12/07/feature-how-british-c....
The destruction of India's economy under british colonization, causing massive poverty.
http://www.srimatham.com/uploads/5/5/4/9/5549439/how_the_bri...
Various Massacres (That we have heard about, from british soldiers when the local population tried to rise up)
Edit: 11 million minorities, including 6 million Jews, were killed in 4 years during the holocaust. In many countries, the Jewish population did not recover at all.
In 2020, Covid-19 slashed the average American life expectancy by 1.8 years. This is for a population of 320 - 350 million. The article contends that Indian life expectancy dropped by a whopping 5 years at the height of British colonial power. For a large and populous country to lose 5 years of life expectancy is a pretty big deal no matter what way you slice it.