You know, once Calcutta was the capital of British India.

您知道吧，加尔各答曾经是英属印度的首都。

The region was annexed by the British Empire and stayed part of British India until 1947.

这个地区由大不列颠帝国统治，在1947年成为英国人统治的印度的一部分。

Colonial Modernities: Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon (Architext Series), 1.

殖民地现代性：印度，锡兰英殖民地的建筑，住宅。

Over the past six decades, he said, the north-east had been "transformed from the second richest part of British India to the laggard region it is today".

艾亚尔表示，过去60年来，印度东北部已从“英属印度第二富裕的地区，变成如今的落后地区”。

But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand square miles, and a population of from one hundred to one hundred and ten millions of inhabitants.

但是，真正名副其实的所谓英属印度，只有七十万平方英里的面积和一亿到一亿一千万的人口。