In the years before the Mutiny, the British constructed a hedge, a very large and long hedge, halfway across India for the mundane reason of preventing salt smuggling. John Company, it seems, also fattened itself by making poor labourers pay two months wages for a year's supply of salt. This hedge was manned and guarded like the Maginot line. An Englishman, read about it in Henry Sleeman's ''Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official '', came to India and found it....
http://thebutterflydiaries. wordpress.com/2009/02/15/ taxmans-hedge/ Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Col Ashwin Baindur OIC Corps Archive & Museum, CME, Dapodi Pune 411031 ------------------------------------------- Tel : 020-27147976 (R) Mob : 09923454462 Alternate email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tongue in chick! This Rann is for the Birds! Being a pundit, Chitrapur Saraswat to boot, I could’nt resistplacing Subbu’s tongue in cheek introduction to his post about afabulous birding trip to Kutch. Enjoy… . The first lesson I learnt in Kutch is that a good pair of tits isvery hard to come by, and you could spend the better part of an eveninglooking high and (occasionally) low for them! Adesh had promised toshow us the endemic Whitenaped Tits, but the birds were playing theircards very close to their chests. Our local guide Mohammedbhai,however, regarded them as his bosom buddies,…… Follow the post in... Blog: http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/ The natural travails of an Army officer in Hindostan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ''We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.'' - Quarry worker's creed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
