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....
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