Inland Customs Line
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The Inland Customs Line, incorporating the Great Hedge of India, was a customs barrier built by the British colonial rulers of India to prevent smuggling of salt from coastal regions in order to avoid
India in 1823
Allan Octavian Hume, pictured in 1889
Agra Canal construction work
Lord Northbrook, Viceroy of India during the peak of the Inland Customs Department
Carissa carandas
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Carissa carandas is a species of flowering shrub in the family Apocynaceae. It produces berry-sized fruits that are commonly used as a condiment in Indian pickles and spices. The fruit is black and ta
Inland Customs Line
…which would be suited to different soil and rainfall conditions. The result was that the main body of the hedge was composed of Indian plum, babool, karonda and several species of Euphorbia. The prickly pear was used where conditions meant that nothing else could grow, as was found in parts of the Hisar…
Carissa carandas flowers
Thorn and fresh shoot on Bengal Currant
Fruit
Fruit ready for consumption