She was born in British colonial India, a place a world away from our comfortable homes in the West - but not so far, it would seem, from the dwelling place of our inner Self.

她生于英国殖民下的印度，一个远离我们西方舒适家园的国度——但是看来离我们内在真我居住的家园并不遥远。

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From the Writers' Building in Calcutta, known as Kolkata in India, the British once ran colonial India.

从加尔各答的作家大厦出发，英国人曾经在这里建立了印度殖民地。

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Based on the book of the same name by guardian.co.uk columnist Alex von Tunzelmann, the film Chronicles the handover of power in the last days of British colonial rule in India in 1947.

该故事由英国《卫报》专栏作家阿丽克斯·冯·藤泽尔曼(Alex von Tunzelmann)的同名小说改编。影片按编年史讲述了1947年英国殖民统治印度最后的日子中，权力转交的过程。

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The Kashmir problem is part of the aftermath of the British partition of colonial India.

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After all, it was British colonial rulers who, at partition in 1947, drew the boundary line between India and Pakistan that the two nations have battled over ever since.

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She is at the head of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has ruled India for most of the time since the country gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.

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