Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India, Hardcover by Taylor, Miles (...

by Tanuja Kothiyal

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Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India, Hardcover by Taylor, Miles (EDT); Kothiyal, Tanuja (EDT), ISBN 1032718277, ISBN-13 9781032718279, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book explores the central role of salt in modern Indian history through eleven specially commissioned essays from an international range of scholars. Down to 1947, the British controlled the production, distribution and sale of salt in India. Salt was taxed, with the burden falling disproportionately on the poor. By the early 20th century, salt yielded the largest revenue of all commodities taxed by the Government of India. When Mohandas Gandhi sought to mobilize the Indian poor against colonial rule in 1930, he chose a march from Ahmedabad to the sea-salt producing coastline of Gujarat as an act of civil disobedience, projecting the Indian struggle for independence to an unprecedented global audience. Using salt as a lens, these essays reconstruct how one of life's necessities remained a central issue of public policy in both colonial and independent India, exploring the entangled histories of colonial state making, economic policies, individual ambitions, legal entanglements, protest and public health. This volume will be invaluable for students, researchers and scholars interested in South Asian studies, Economic History and Public Policy. Th covers broad subject areas including colonial administration, taxation and revenue systems, civil disobedience movements, economic nationalism, p

• Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
• Year: 2026
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781032718279
• Condition: Fine

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