Alternate examples of slightly better colonial policies?

Revolution, Maple Leafs, Chrysanthemes and the Eagle made me think of colonialism in the Victoria era. Are there any examples where the European powers could have been more enlightened in their colonial policies? Think of how the British in OTL treated the Maori compared to Australian aborigines. Or their policy in Botswana vs. elsewhere. The alt-example I always bring up is a different fate for the Zulu.

I was going to make a counterpart thread in Post-1900 about a better enlightened decolonization policy, but now I realize that would be even more difficult, as the damage has been done.
 
Well, my TL has a slightly alternate French colonization effort. Whether it is "better" is up to debate. Essentially, IOTL, the Third Republic was continually messing up its own infrastructure projects and consolidation efforts by vacillating between support and opposition to the Catholic Church (who were the most heavily involved organization in France's colonial empire). In OABH, that schizophrenic attitude naturally disappears- which means you don't get as many mistakes and conflicts made. For example, in Madagascar in 1899, the governor withdrew support of a road-building project organized by the Catholic Church. The native workers who had worked on the project were told it satisfied their corvee obligation and when the governor's official came by demanding they pay the corvee, the people of the village revolted. Less of those incidents and overall, a more efficient and humanitarian effort in the colonial sphere.
 
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