Domestic customs line

The customs border in the 1870s. The green line marks the border hedge.

The domestic customs line crossed India and was used to collect customs duties on salt . It was 2,500 miles long.

A hedge of thorns should serve to ward off smuggling. It was laid out on behalf of the British colonial administration around the 1840s, in 1878 it was 1,100 miles long, and in many parts it was about 12 feet high and 14 inches wide. It was looked after by around 12,000 workers. It was abandoned in 1879. Parts of the route have been used as a route for road construction to this day.

See also

• Salt tax

literature

• Roy Moxham: The Great Hedge of India. 2001. ISBN 978-0786708406

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sarah Laskow: The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India. Retrieved November 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ http://www.roymoxham.com/the-great-hedge-of-india. Retrieved November 3, 2018 .