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Some chapters were so revealing of things that I had no clue about that the read wasnt easy at all. This allowed for the flow of wealth from India to Britain and also led to the deaths of many Indians as well as hardship for those who didn't die.Surprisingly interesting subject - I never realized salt was so heavily taxed in India, first by the British East India Company and later by the British Empire. For all the time and effort that went into building and maintaining the hedge, it was only partially successful. A really interesting story of a little known hedge planted across India by the British. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The British built a hedge. Por favor, tente novamente. Tente novamente Tenha frete GRÁTIS ilimitado, filmes, séries, músicas e muito mais. But his dedication over years and years to find exactly where and how and why this hedge was built becomes a fascination for the reader, as much as author. Read this & find out just exactly how much money was made in the United Kingdom off of the pain and suffering of so many salt deprived Indians.
Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. This book is about a quirky Englishman who searches India for the remains of an enormous hedge that the British built in India to prevent salt smuggling by the native population, They were forcing the Indians to pay them a salt tax. Start by marking “The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People” as Want to Read:
The Great Hedge of India: Wall that divided India New Delhi: India was once divided by a wall that ran from Punjab to Orissa.
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-- Eric Newby Moxham has written a parable at once light-handed and melancholy about the cruelty and folly fo the empire.
The great hedge of India was first placed in the 1840s by the British in an effort to strengthen trade routes so they could exploit an Indian resource: salt.
Hume’s successor, G. H. M. Batten, strengthened the barrier by building stone walls and ditches where the land was too barren for the hedge to grow. That hedgewhich for fifty years had been manned and cared for by 12,000 men and had run a length of 2,500 milesbecomes what Moxham calls his "ridiculous obsession." * Observer * Moxham has pulled out a jewel. There Roy Moxham buys the memoir of a nineteenth-century British colonial administrative officer, who makes a passing reference to a giant hedge planted by the British across the Indian subcontinent.
Não é possível adicionar itens à lista de favoritos . Remarkable" and "astonishing," says Jan Morris of Roy Moxham's account of his search for "one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India," and John Keay finds it "a compelling read, simply told, and simply wonderful."
Then, in another village he met another old man who had known about the hedge and shared what he knew about it. a partir de R$283,92 The E-mail Address(es) field is required. An unquestionably fascinating tale, as well as a travel book and historical detective story, The Great Hedge of India begins in a secondhand bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road. I really enjoyed his humor and descriptive writing as he tells us about this goose chase. I was astonished at the audacity. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. They assumed it was a condiment like sugar and there had been debate about taxing sugar as heavily, but the wealthier classes didn't want that. The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier That Divided a People: Amazon.es: Moxham, Roy: Libros en idiomas extranjeros In a supreme irony his work in finding the virtually unknown Customs Hedge (the Great Hedge of India referred to in the title) echoes the words of Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where he points out to students that 90% of their work will be in the library. The official subject is a search for the 2,300 mile customs barrier that separated British Bengal from the rest of British India in a quest to tax salt amongst other things. Roy Moxham explores this question thoroughly and satisfactorily - also explaining why, as a tax that impacted absolutely everyone rather than just rich landowners for example, doing so was so iniquitous. He includes side stories are about the famines that ravaged India under British rule.
His research should win awards. This allowed them to extort money from this essential resource as well as increase the price of salt produced in India so that British companies could benefit from selling British produced salt to Indians. This allowed them to extort money from this essential resource as well as increase the price of saltA small but interesting book that examines a little-known piece of British Imperialism in India. An unquestionably fascinating tale, as well as a travel book and historical detective story, The Great Hedge of India begins in a secondhand bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road.
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