Giving credit to Brits for fighting misogyny in British Raj?

“The British wanted to bring Western enlightenment to the native Indian family by abolishing child marriages, sati (burning of widows), the prohibition of the remarriage of widows, purdah,and similar patriarchal customs that oppressed women.” https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cg...

As a Pakistani American woman, I agree that there were things that the brits did wrong. However, we need to give them credit when needed