When Gandhiji Launched The Salt Satyagraha In The Summer Of 1930, The Then Viceroy, Lord Irwin, Scoffed At His Crazy Scheme Of Upsetting The Government With A P

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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Bo

Salt and State is an annotated translation of a treatise on salt from Song China. From its inception in the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–220 A.D.), the salt monopoly