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Salty nuts of Empire

Salt taxes started during Chandragupta Maurya's time. The thing is, says Roy Moxham, no one protested until the avaricious criminals of the East India Company raised the rate a hundred-fold

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
Even though collectively the English are amongst the nastiest people in the world, they do produce some quite endearing individuals if only for their nuttiness. I discovered one such last month. 

Indeed, think it might be a good idea for someone like Ram Guha to write a book called The English Nuts of India. The Brits will love it because they make such a point about being eccentric. 

The guy I discovered is called Roy Moxham. Back in 2002, he wrote a book back about how, in the latter part of the 19th century the bandits who ruled India built a 2,300-mile
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