1st Edition
Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India
Preface
Miles Taylor and Tanuja Kothiyal
Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India
Tanuja Kothiyal and Miles Taylor
1. A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade
Arijita Manna
2. Monopoly, Excise and the Salt Supply Conundrum in British India
Neeta Sanghi
3. Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century
Tanuja Kothiyal
4. The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–1947
Miles Taylor
5. From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45
Julia C. Strauss
6. Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha
Elisa deCourcy and Miles Taylor
7. Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–31
Rosalind Parr
8. Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–35
Ashok Malhotra
9. Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity
Arularasan G., Balaharish V. and Senthil Babu D.
Salt: An Afterword
David Arnold
Biography
Miles Taylor is Professor of British History & Society at the Großbritannien-Zentrum/Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His most recent books are Empress: Queen Victoria and India (2018), and (co-ed.), Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s (2020).
Tanuja Kothiyal is Professor of History in the School of Liberal Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi, India. She is the author of Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert (2016), and Co-Editor (with Farhana Ibrahim) of South Asian borderlands: mobility, history, affect (2022).
