Abstract
S. G. Palmer, Assistant Secretary to the Bengal Board of Customs, Salt and Opium, stated with puzzlement on 27 April 1834: The state of the salt market [in Bengal and Bihar] for some time past has been so difficult to understand… . The price in the mofussil [up-country], by the last returns, is hardly remunerating, although salt has sold at the public sales lower than it has sold for many years; yet how is this to be accounted for? … we see that … they [prices] are really rather lower than ordinary; a fact only to be accounted for by supposing that these markets are illicitly supplied. 1 Why was the government of the English East India Company (hereafter the Company) concerned with the price of salt and perplexed by the state of the market?.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India |
| Subtitle of host publication | Essays in Honour of Peter Robb |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 249-275 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781351596954 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138237056 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 Jan 1 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)