British Raj
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"A classic example of a perverse incentive occurred when the British government in India offered a bounty for dead cobras with intent to decrease the wild cobra population. However, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped, causing the cobra breeders to set the now-worthless snakes free. As a result, the wild cobra population further increased. The term cobra effect was coined to describe a situation where an attempted solution to a problem actually makes the problem worse."--Sholem Stein |
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The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947.
The rule of India by the British East India Company is also called British India.
