Your argument ironically refutes the original point. The bad thing colonization did to Bengal was prevent “pursuit of growth and capital accumulation.” The tariffs and restraints on free trade were the real culprit.[1] The people in Bengal weren’t poorer than they were before colonization. Bengal’s GDP per capita was about the same in 1700 as in 1900. The real problem is that Bengal missed out on all the profits from capitalism that they could have enjoyed had they been allowed to trade freely with other countries. So England went from being twice as rich per capita as Bengal, before colonization, to being more than 10 times as rich at the time of independence.
My dad’s village was a lovely socialist utopia. Rice farming requires a high level of communalism. During religious holidays, the community comes together and pools their resources has feasts for the whole village. Villages like that post videos of it on Youtube, it’s very charming: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rf9x_YZwE5c
[1] Direct revenue extraction was relatively low, and the famines were structural in the region for thousands of years.