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Salt Across Empire

Salt Across Empire

By Winters, Joshua

Published by epubli

English 2026
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About this book

A living wall cut through India so the Great Hedge of India could turn salt into obedience, hunger, and imperial revenue. Built from thorn, patrol, paperwork, and fear, the hedge exposed how colonial taxation could enter the most ordinary substance of life. This book follows the Inland Customs Line as a mechanism of British rule, where salt revenue, East India Company administration, and customs policing reshaped movement, trade, and survival. Rather than treating empire as distant policy, it shows how power became physical: planted in soil, guarded by men, and enforced against villagers, traders, and smugglers. The Great Hedge of India reveals a Europe-made system of extraction that transformed necessity into discipline. Its legacy belongs not only to Indian history, but to the wider history of empire, bureaucracy, and the moral cost of revenue.

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