The term cobra effect stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India.

这个词来源于英国殖民印度时期的一桩轶事。

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

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Far from limiting its war effort to fending off the encircling allied powers of Russia, France and Britain, German diplomats and soldiers tried to foment popular anti-colonial revolution in India and Egypt, to create a widespread Islamic jihad against the colonial rulers, to disrupt the allies' global communications.

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Jewtown is the main source for antiques, especially colonial furniture, in South India.

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