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Thorns for Revenue
India salt tax and East India Company border control
Por JARED DOUGLAS
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Sinopsis
India salt tax history begins with a cruel simplicity: make necessity expensive, then police the poor for resisting it.
This book examines the Great Hedge not as an oddity, but as a bureaucratic machine. Customs posts, patrol routes, reports, fines, and maps turned the East India Companys fiscal logic into a landscape of coercion. The barriers power lay less in its plants than in the administrative world behind them: clerks measuring losses, officers chasing smugglers, and colonial law redefining survival as evasion.
Through the Inland Customs Line, British India becomes visible as a system where paperwork and violence depended on each other. The result is a restrained account of how imperial government learned to extract obedience from daily need.
This book examines the Great Hedge not as an oddity, but as a bureaucratic machine. Customs posts, patrol routes, reports, fines, and maps turned the East India Companys fiscal logic into a landscape of coercion. The barriers power lay less in its plants than in the administrative world behind them: clerks measuring losses, officers chasing smugglers, and colonial law redefining survival as evasion.
Through the Inland Customs Line, British India becomes visible as a system where paperwork and violence depended on each other. The result is a restrained account of how imperial government learned to extract obedience from daily need.
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Editorial: Epubli
ISBN: 9783565465644
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 28/05/2026
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