He was thwarted by the fact that the British were besieging his observation site at Pondicherry in India.

英国人包围了他在印度本地治里的观察点，这一事实使他受挫。

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British adventurer Alastair Humphreys had ridden his bike around the world, walked across India, and rowed from Africa to South America.

英国探险家阿拉斯泰尔·汉弗莱斯曾骑自行车环游世界，徒步穿越了印度，还从非洲划船到南美洲。

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Inspired by Halley's suggestion of a way to pin down the scale of the Solar System, teams of British and French astronomers set out on expeditions to places as diverse as India and Siberia.

受哈雷提出的确定太阳系大小的方法启发，英国和法国天文学家团队开始在印度和西伯利亚等地考察。

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British-governed India had no railways in 1849.

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This 890km stretch of frontier was settled in 1914 by the governments of Britain and Tibet, which was then in effect independent, and named the McMahon Line after its creator, Sir Henry McMahon, foreign secretary of British-ruled India.

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The area is a stronghold of the hard-line Deobandi Islamic sect, which began as a movement against British imperialism in India - the modern-day Taliban are Deobandis.

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