Victorian India's Lost Wonder
The Great Hedge of India
This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world—in the author's words, his 'ridiculous obsession'—that arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs telling of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge was set in place to allow the collection of the Salt Tax by British customs officers.
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About the book
Inspired by the concept of this amazing living barrier, now forgotten, Roy Moxham set off to find out what had happened to it and whether any remnant existed today. His travels in India, and what he found there, form the basis for this illuminating book.
Writer Jan Morris comments: 'At first I thought this remarkable book must be a hoax... It tells the story of one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria's India—a customs barrier 2,300 miles long, most of it made of hedge. It was patrolled by 12,000 men and would have stretched from London to Constantinople, yet few historians mention it and most of us have never heard of it. Could anything be more astonishing?'
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group
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