Thanks for posting this. The original book by Sleeman is available at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15483 Janaki Turaga
On 2/15/09, Ashwin Baindur <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ > > Enjoy... > > Ashwin > > > -- > 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]<email%[email protected]> > Blog: http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ''We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.'' > > - Quarry worker's creed > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
