The decline of the stepwell began with the British raj, which insisted baolis were unhygienic havens of vermin and disease.

阶梯井的衰落始于英国拉贾斯坦邦统治时期，当时的英国坚持认为，baoli是害虫和疾病的不卫生庇护所。

In the 18th century, hundreds of thousands more set sail for Australia and New Zealand, as well as South Asia (the British Raj) and Africa (primarily South Africa).

18世纪时，成千上万的英国人扬帆至澳洲和新西兰，甚至远达南亚（英属拉吉）和非洲（主要在南非）。

Throughout this time Calcutta was even bombed regularly by the Japanese, indicating the extent of Japanese penetration into the British Raj.

在此期间，加尔各答甚至经常遭到日本人的轰炸，这表明日本对英属印度的渗透程度。

For years debate had been raging on what would happen to the British Raj or Crown Rule, with calls for independence impossible to ignore completely by the 1930s.

多年来，关于英国统治或王权统治将会发生什么的争论一直很激烈，到了 20 世纪 30 年代，要求独立的呼声已不可能完全被忽视。

So nobody from the outside world is known to have ever contacted them on their island until a merchant ship of the British Raj just happened to wreck itself there in 1867.

所以外界没有人在他们的岛上联系过他们，直到 1867 年英国统治时期的一艘商船碰巧在那里失事。