- Map RoomBritain’s plunder of India: A history of cotton and salt
This map tracks two of the most important commodities in the economic and political relationship between India and the United Kingdom: salt and cotton. For 250 years, the United Kingdom extracted money and cheap raw goods from India, which, in turn, was forced to import highly taxed goods. [End Page 30]
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