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There would be no mention on this site if the man doing the helping didn't get called "King Bazza," actually.

I disagree that the article at The Telegraph is colonialist in nature (either overtly or by ways of suggestions). In fact, it pokes fun at the man whose own children make fun of because he got made into royalty because he helped other people.

I re-read the article and found no evidence of "the old idea that the white man is required to help those at the 'bottom of the pile'" as you suggested.
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By all accounts, he *did* help the villagers, who are at the bottom of India's caste system and lived in abject poverty (they once lived on landfill). And they made him "king" because they were grateful.
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