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The great hedge of India

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  • "Chutakibhar namak, milon lambi bangad"

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  • "This is the story of the quest for a legendary hedge planted across the Indian sub-continent. Although one of the largest man-made constructions in history, it appears in no history books. Roy Moxham was inspired to travel to India to discover whether it really existed and if any of it remained."
  • "On travel impressions about India and his research work on the history of the customs hedge."
  • "This is the story of a quest, sparked by the chance purchase in a London bookshop of some memoirs by a nineteenth-century British civil servant. The memoirs referred in passing to a great hedge that by the 1850s ran for 1,500 miles, planted by the East India Company as part of a "customs line" which divided India from the Himalayas to Orissa. Guarded by 12,000 men to extort the hated Salt Tax, it was one of the greatest constructions in history and added significantly to the sum of human misery in India, yet it appears in almost no history books and today seems completely forgotten in both Britain and India. Incredulous that such a gargantuan enterprise could have disappeared from memory, Roy Moxham set off to India to find out whether any part of it still stood. Over three years of travel and research, the author unraveled the story behind the hedge and its place in the Raj.--From publisher description."

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  • "History"
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  • "Cuṭakī bhara namaka mīloṃ lambī bāgaṛa-"
  • "Great hedge of india"
  • "The great hedge of India"
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