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Providing the Revenue of India: A Government Salt Factory
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Caption | Providing the Revenue of India: A Government Salt Factory. Salt is in every part of the world a prime necessary of life. Without salt in some form health cannot be preserved. It is the fact that a tax upon salt secures a contribution from every class of the community, that has made the imposition a favourite one with Governments in 1789, but in India the immemorial practice of all ages. The "Gabelle," or salt tax, was abolished in France in ages has been continued by the Government, and the production of salt is a carefully-preserved monopoly The article is for the most part produced by the evaporation of sea-water at factories situated on the coast. It is one of these factories which is here shown. The revenue derived from salt in 1895 amounted to 8,665,749 tens of rupees. Photograph from The Queen's Empire (Cassell, 1899). |
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Creator | English Photographer (19th Century) |
Artwork medium | black and white photograph |
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