This channel always covers the most ridiculously unknown topics, each distant from the other. Really neat, love learning about obscure historical facts
@@ABLEARC no I did mean distant, as in geographically diverse. On time its India, one time its Oceania, one time its the americas, and so on and so forth
Now I have an obvious question: Are there any portion of the Great Hedge which still survived anywhere in modern India or Pakistan? I can't imagine anything but old remaining of the Great Hedge surviving as unassuming bushes in some local Indian landscapes...
@@SmashingCapital I’m in a college class on Modern Asian history. It only covers the Mughals onward but just that time period is super interesting. Definitely a place with a rich and ancient history.
Allan Octavian Hume is notable in modern Indian history for very important things like founding the Indian National Congress, and also in ornithology circles for basically kickstarting the field here. This Hedge project seems to have become very obscure and forgotten.
@@the_ratmeister But before that act any tea had to first be transported to England and from there to North America (or some other place), or alternatively it could be acquired from smugglers. The Tea Act made it so that the tea could be directly transported to North America which *lowered* the cost of tea so functionally it became *less* taxed.
@@angelcabeza6464 It lowered the price because before the Tea Act tea had to go through either some English merchants or people smuggling e.g. Dutch tea. I don't know what price level is "alarming" for you but in any case it's still a salient point that the price of tea came down as a result of the Tea Act.
Most European colonies were run at a loss. Governing is extremely expensive even if you provide little to no services to the people you rule. Private companies were the ones making the profits off of cheap (slave) labor from the people in the colonies and the abundant natural resources
All they had to do was a quick census based on existing tax records from the local muckity mucks, calculate their own administrative & garrison costs, then tithe or tribute an appropriate percentage to be taken from the muckity mucks with the open promise of punishment if those local yokels passed on the costs of Empire onto the backs of the productive classes. While also! Openly offering trade opportunities independent of caste or creed. Bam! Profitable Empire... except that it requires seeing value in local institutions & allowing brown people autonomy over their own wealth. And we can't run a cruel, extractive enterprise by doing that, now can we? Control over profits, amirite?
Because they de-industrialised regions like bengal. Bengal’s textile industry was the best in the world and the average textile worker in bengal made more money and worked less hours than one in britain. After EIC took control of bengal they de-industrialised it and just used the cotton grown there to fuel the british textile industry
If the people dont have money they cant buy stuff. If they cant buy stuff then businesses cant sell stuff or have to lower their prices which hurts. Thats why taxing without giving at least some service back is kinda bad for the economy but try to explain that to a colonizer
I find it to be more disgusting than fascinating. This video is about Brits trying to figure out how to tax something as basic as salt to oblivion in the midst of a great famine. The rate at which these great famines occurred increased drastically under British rule. Tens of millions of Indians died in all these famines. Yet it is not propagated in modern pop culture (even though the Nazi-perpetrated holocaust is) simply because it is the Germans that lost WW2, not the Brits. These days we have Brits talking about how British colonial rule of India actually helped India and how the famines are not attributable to British rule. All this while the modern nation state of UK still has colonies to this day like the Chagos Archipelego where it has kicked out the natives despite the International Court of Justice ruling that such an act is illegal. Yet seldom is that seen in pop culture either. It is true: history is written by the victors. I don't hate the UK or anything, but this woke virus they have been afflicted with is just pure karma. And I hope they suffer from it for a long time, just as we have suffered under them.
@death_parade I agree with crazyboris. There are many parts of the Raj that are not well known even by Indians themselves. And this is one part. I also agree with you that taxing such a common commodity seems very dumb. Until you take into account that salt was always taxed elsewhere, too. The word "salary" comes from Latin = salare = salt. People were paid with salt ,bread, beer ( Egyptians), wine, and some money. The same thing happened in the rest of Europe as well. But a hedge ? Excuse me if I find that very funny. Otoh, all they had to do was plant the damn bushes, trim them from time to time. And at least it was a natural way to build one. It certainly didn't require slaves to plant it, unlike the Great Wall where slaves were used. I also appreciate the fact that you mentioned the Chagos Islands. Very few people seem bothered by what happened. Otoh, there's another wall being planted now : the Great Green Wall in the Sahel . Though this one is much more vital than a hedge. Maybe you have heard about it? Just another thing, I can understand it, but wishing ill on others isn't good.
@@171_indranildutta6 Nor is Hinduism a religion. Nor is caste system real. What is your point? That the concept of *Bharat* and _Bharatiya sabhyata_ did not exist back then? Don't make me laugh.
@@death_parade existed but not as a nation u tell me is Himachal culture matches with Bengal??? nope then how can India be a single race or ethnicity ?
I'm guessing you wanted to do a Saint Patrick's day video, thought about doing something from Irish history which inevitably lead you to research both green things and British colonialism, and ended up somehow doing a video about the Indian hedge.
Thanks for bringing awareness to this. I as an indian didn't know about this until a few years ago when i read the book. Completely forgotten but very interesting. The british found the salt tax very profitable so much that they didn't care Indians were dying from ACTUAL SALT DEPRIVATION. No wonder people smuggled salt
The Great Hedge of India is the perfect embodiment of the British Empire: seems kind of quaint and silly but actually really evil in a complicated boring way.
India won't take any revenge from Modern Brite because of their forefathers. We actually don't need to take revenge because the worst fate is getting islamisation of uk and specially England and its capital London. If you know the current fertility rate statistics and which community is growing most and even overtaken white and Christian people in some areas like London ,birmingham,etc. Then you will be able to understand that it will eventually happen, it is a matter of when and not how and if because of UK stupid politicians and your Navy and other human rights groups that let them come to the UK without any major checks and proper control.
As a native Indian, I wasn't ever aware of this fact or taught this in our history books. Kudos to you for keeping these nuggets of history alive! Subscribed to you just now.
This reminds me of one Jabzy's videos on what he called the "The Great Ditch of China". It was a ditch and a wall of willow set between Manchuria and China by the Qing dynasty in order to stop the Han from migrating into Manchuria.
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Thank you for posting this. The first I heard about this hedge, was in a Horrible Histories clip, and, to be honest, it sounded made up, but then, a lot of historical anecdote's do.
5:24 (in with the hedge pic:: " Average human height in 1870 was 5' 10" of 178 cm " that was not the height of avg person , not in India or globally. (the global avg has not reached 5' 10 yet...even after decades of relative peace time and far far better access to vastly better health care , diet, scientific understanding of diseases/cures/preventions etc etc) (Indians today have an avg height of 5'5" , which is approx 1.5 inches below the global average.) no nation reports having an avg of 5' 10" or above... Quite a few states reporting a 5' 9" average tho.
This was such a great topic! The information required to understand why the hedge was there and why it was abandoned really makes you understand the economics and politics of late British imperialism in India!
The British didn't "tax stamps" in the American Colonies; the Stamp Tax was a tax for printed material. Every broadsheet, tract, etc had to have a stamp affixed to it to indicate the tax had been paid. Stamps were how British officials recognized the tax to have been paid, it wasn't what was being taxed.
7:47 well it never really was about governing people, it was all about looting. The rise and fall of EIC is one of the most interesting topic. In the Early days of EIC getting control of Indian Subcontinent Warren Hastings trial regarding Rohillas war, Treatment of Raja Chetti Singh and Sacking of Begum of Awadh were some interesting incidents that are not so talked about.
Allan Octavian Hume is the same guy who founded Indian National Congress, which in 1930 under the leadership of Gandhi was instrumental in conducting massive protests against the Salt tax and was also a thorn in the side of the British for decades.
@@rustomkanishka yep it provided a forum for upper class Indians to organise and share their opinions which organically developed into an organisation against the tyrannical rule of British.
@@monsieur1936 yep. It grew into something amazing. But in the start it was laughable. Also the EIC made a third of their taxes from drugs. All the charitable houses started up by Parsis and all the big businesses, like Wadia and Tata, got their start selling drugs for the empire. They always tend to gloss over that part. (I am not Parsi, even though my name sounds like it. My ancestors weren't in the subcontinent at that time)
3:38 It wasn't really "smuggling". Many of those were traditional traders whose communities have been involved in it for hundreds of years. Brits setup check posts and started extracting wealth from them and they took inner routes to avoid this. So Brits setup check posts there. This continued for sometime. Eventually, Brits setup the big hedge to close the gap.
The "tax on stamps" you mention at the beginning is, I assume, a reference to the Stamp Act, which was a lot more over-reaching than just stamps. It basically covered any legal document.
It was AO Hume who started the congress party in 1885. EIC was effectively under British govt from start of 19th century through Board of Directors reporting to British appointed Secretary of India... Credit to native Indian state for not taxing the basic necessity... Most native states were better governed despite the imposition of British foreign and trade policies at national level.. Some like Travancore aka Kerala had 47 percent literacy in 1950 when India under British had around 12 percent
That is the most British deterrence I’ve ever seen “Those rabble rousers will never touch our salt mines now their is a clear hedge, hedge means don’t come in, no one would be rude enough to get past it”
This is a hedge so it easily disappeared by choice but it just makes me wonder what other great marvels of history disappeared without good drawing or photo like this.
I can not help but think of the ecological impact that hedge might had. Did it hinder migration? Or introduced new species? Some resemblance to the "Green Wall of Africa", to combat desertification?
If this hedge was actually built as a single plant, it would have easily been the largest singular organism on earth, beating out that 100 acre clonal aspen colony in Utah.
Just a small note, but the leaders of Princely States were more often than not perfectly happy to follow British instructions. There wasn't much "strongarming" going on.
Oh did the appear in your dream last night to inform you about their feelings? Anyways, only those rulers who agreed to become puppets of British were kept in power, and any who stood up against the British were dealt with, citing some garbage laws.
If you are vastly rich having some adviser chap to deal with all the boring bits of your job so that you could get back to hunting and partying was awfully convenient, especially as he usually knew what he was doing better than you, was a security guaranty to your position and didn't get in your hair much. It ended up that their were very few Indian princes with an interest in local administration and those who were were usually very happy to have someone to cooperate with it on.
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Is there any living part of the great hedge wall left and living or is it completely gone to time?
This channel always covers the most ridiculously unknown topics, each distant from the other. Really neat, love learning about obscure historical facts
I think you meant to say distinct not distant.
@@ABLEARC no I did mean distant, as in geographically diverse. On time its India, one time its Oceania, one time its the americas, and so on and so forth
@@italianpc4119 ooohhh I gotcha. I like that thought process.
No way it's Italian P&C !!!
Now I have an obvious question: Are there any portion of the Great Hedge which still survived anywhere in modern India or Pakistan? I can't imagine anything but old remaining of the Great Hedge surviving as unassuming bushes in some local Indian landscapes...
There are some remains embankments found in Central India. These might be a part of the Hedge
In certain places people will point to a ditch and say that used to be the hedge. No one knows for sure.
There is apparently a bit left in Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, north Indian.
As an Indian with a huge knack for Indian history, this video really did come off as a surprise to me.
same here
We should study more indian history it seems intresting
@@SmashingCapital I’m in a college class on Modern Asian history. It only covers the Mughals onward but just that time period is super interesting. Definitely a place with a rich and ancient history.
@@SmashingCapital Yes! Indeed!
Same
In short:
"How do we get more money from salt?"
"We build a hedge"
Step three : Profit
Allan Octavian Hume is notable in modern Indian history for very important things like founding the Indian National Congress, and also in ornithology circles for basically kickstarting the field here. This Hedge project seems to have become very obscure and forgotten.
So true, Nichijou cat
Thanks sakamoto
He made congress to control Indian leaders
What is present day status of great hedge
Just by the title, I knew over the hedge would be referenced. Truly a cinematic masterpiece
I saw that too
The stamp act wasn't a tax on stamps, it was a tax on paper. Paper had the stamp on it to show the tax had been paid.
And neither did they tax tea. The Tea Act 1773 was a *tax exemption* given to the East India Company, not a tax on tea sold in the Americas.
@@marcustulliuscicero5443 IIRC the colonies were only allowed to buy EIC tea at inflated prices so functionally it was taxed.
@@the_ratmeister But before that act any tea had to first be transported to England and from there to North America (or some other place), or alternatively it could be acquired from smugglers. The Tea Act made it so that the tea could be directly transported to North America which *lowered* the cost of tea so functionally it became *less* taxed.
@@seneca983 no because it was sold at an alarming raised price learn your history
@@angelcabeza6464 It lowered the price because before the Tea Act tea had to go through either some English merchants or people smuggling e.g. Dutch tea. I don't know what price level is "alarming" for you but in any case it's still a salient point that the price of tea came down as a result of the Tea Act.
We're going to build a hedge and India's going to pay for it.
Almost impressive that when the EIC arrived India was one of the wealthiest parts of the world yet they only managed to run it at a loss.
Most European colonies were run at a loss. Governing is extremely expensive even if you provide little to no services to the people you rule. Private companies were the ones making the profits off of cheap (slave) labor from the people in the colonies and the abundant natural resources
All they had to do was a quick census based on existing tax records from the local muckity mucks, calculate their own administrative & garrison costs, then tithe or tribute an appropriate percentage to be taken from the muckity mucks with the open promise of punishment if those local yokels passed on the costs of Empire onto the backs of the productive classes. While also! Openly offering trade opportunities independent of caste or creed.
Bam! Profitable Empire... except that it requires seeing value in local institutions & allowing brown people autonomy over their own wealth. And we can't run a cruel, extractive enterprise by doing that, now can we? Control over profits, amirite?
They technically ran it at a loss, but greater British society was greatly enriched by the arrangement.
Because they de-industrialised regions like bengal. Bengal’s textile industry was the best in the world and the average textile worker in bengal made more money and worked less hours than one in britain. After EIC took control of bengal they de-industrialised it and just used the cotton grown there to fuel the british textile industry
If the people dont have money they cant buy stuff. If they cant buy stuff then businesses cant sell stuff or have to lower their prices which hurts. Thats why taxing without giving at least some service back is kinda bad for the economy but try to explain that to a colonizer
Does this video tell the origins of the term "hedge fund"?
Haha unrelated to this, but I can see the connection.
Separate origins both related to hedges.
the giant hedge running throughout India is like something from Carroll's Alice In Wonderland
Except people were dying everywhere, butchered raped
Indian history tends to get overlooked, but its full of so many fascinating stories like this, great video, hope to see more
I find it to be more disgusting than fascinating. This video is about Brits trying to figure out how to tax something as basic as salt to oblivion in the midst of a great famine. The rate at which these great famines occurred increased drastically under British rule. Tens of millions of Indians died in all these famines. Yet it is not propagated in modern pop culture (even though the Nazi-perpetrated holocaust is) simply because it is the Germans that lost WW2, not the Brits. These days we have Brits talking about how British colonial rule of India actually helped India and how the famines are not attributable to British rule. All this while the modern nation state of UK still has colonies to this day like the Chagos Archipelego where it has kicked out the natives despite the International Court of Justice ruling that such an act is illegal. Yet seldom is that seen in pop culture either.
It is true: history is written by the victors. I don't hate the UK or anything, but this woke virus they have been afflicted with is just pure karma. And I hope they suffer from it for a long time, just as we have suffered under them.
@death_parade I agree with crazyboris. There are many parts of the Raj that are not well known even by Indians themselves. And this is one part. I also agree with you that taxing such a common commodity seems very dumb. Until you take into account that salt was always taxed elsewhere, too. The word "salary" comes from Latin = salare = salt. People were paid with salt ,bread, beer ( Egyptians), wine, and some money. The same thing happened in the rest of Europe as well. But a hedge ? Excuse me if I find that very funny. Otoh, all they had to do was plant the damn bushes, trim them from time to time. And at least it was a natural way to build one. It certainly didn't require slaves to plant it, unlike the Great Wall where slaves were used. I also appreciate the fact that you mentioned the Chagos Islands. Very few people seem bothered by what happened. Otoh, there's another wall being planted now : the Great Green Wall in the Sahel . Though this one is much more vital than a hedge. Maybe you have heard about it? Just another thing, I can understand it, but wishing ill on others isn't good.
@@death_parade there was no single race of indian in that era
@@171_indranildutta6 Nor is Hinduism a religion. Nor is caste system real. What is your point? That the concept of *Bharat* and _Bharatiya sabhyata_ did not exist back then? Don't make me laugh.
@@death_parade existed but not as a nation u tell me is Himachal culture matches with Bengal??? nope then how can India be a single race or ethnicity ?
I'm guessing you wanted to do a Saint Patrick's day video, thought about doing something from Irish history which inevitably lead you to research both green things and British colonialism, and ended up somehow doing a video about the Indian hedge.
"We're going to build a hedge, and we're going to make the maharajahs pay for it."
Nicely done!
Thanks for bringing awareness to this. I as an indian didn't know about this until a few years ago when i read the book. Completely forgotten but very interesting.
The british found the salt tax very profitable so much that they didn't care Indians were dying from ACTUAL SALT DEPRIVATION. No wonder people smuggled salt
Who was dying of salt deprivation?
@@maxdavis7722Millions of Indians
The British never really cared about us.
Is that why crisps have gone up in price so much.
How did the caste system work under British rule? Was everyone under a British person considered an untouchable?
Fun fact: the humble Karonda (Carissa carandas) was used as the hedge. The same Karonda that we so love in our pickles.
The Great Hedge of India is the perfect embodiment of the British Empire: seems kind of quaint and silly but actually really evil in a complicated boring way.
India won't take any revenge from Modern Brite because of their forefathers. We actually don't need to take revenge because the worst fate is getting islamisation of uk and specially England and its capital London. If you know the current fertility rate statistics and which community is growing most and even overtaken white and Christian people in some areas like London ,birmingham,etc. Then you will be able to understand that it will eventually happen, it is a matter of when and not how and if because of UK stupid politicians and your Navy and other human rights groups that let them come to the UK without any major checks and proper control.
Perfectly stated.
As a native Indian, I wasn't ever aware of this fact or taught this in our history books. Kudos to you for keeping these nuggets of history alive! Subscribed to you just now.
First Australia has a large fence across it's continent, and now India had a hedge.
*WOW* Thank you! 47 years and this is the first time I've heard of this! FASCINATING!!
47 years?
@@Soumyadeepchatterjee749 9/10 Doctors as well
@@Soumyadeepchatterjee749 Yeah that's how old I am lol
How much of the hedge remains? I asked myself, and Wikipedia responds by saying only a little tiny section which may or may not be part of it.
yeah, if it stll existed we in india would have heard about it. it was plant so it easily decomposed.
This reminds me of one Jabzy's videos on what he called the "The Great Ditch of China". It was a ditch and a wall of willow set between Manchuria and China by the Qing dynasty in order to stop the Han from migrating into Manchuria.
Here's a link to the video:
ruclips.net/video/l50KYHNgcf0/видео.html
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Thanks to the Australian who invented refrigeration.
Every time I think I’ve learned a lot about history, I learn yet another new fact.
Thank you for posting this. The first I heard about this hedge, was in a Horrible Histories clip, and, to be honest, it sounded made up, but then, a lot of historical anecdote's do.
This is an interesting part of history there Tigerstar. I hope to see more videos like this.
It isn't an Emperor Tigerstar video without RIDGE WALLET.
I actually knew about this beforehand because it was featured in an episode of horrible histories
0:17 The Stamp Act was not a tax on stamps it was a tax on paper products
Hedges along the borders seem aesthetically pleasing. We should bring that back. Brighten up our divisions a bit.
✨✨✨✨normalize placing hedges on borders, especially militarized borders, it'll be good for soldier's mental health 😘😘💅💅💖💓✨✨✨✨✨
@@duck1ente Cyprus:
Now *that's* what I call a "hedge fund!"
5:08 dude looks like if you put rienhart heydrich into a 19th century prompt for an ai art program
As an Indian this is the first time I am hearing of such a thing
does any part of the hedge still exist today?
its a plant, which could get easily removed, die and decompose. if it still existed we in india would have probably heard about it.
Remnants of the embankment it was planted on still exist, but the hedge itself is long dead.
Nice video again mr tigerstar
Which source did you getthe average human height in 1870 from? 178cm or 5'10 seems a bit higher than the sources I could find
Yeah that's too high esp in India. Even today avg Indians aren't that tall.
5:24 (in with the hedge pic::
" Average human height in 1870 was 5' 10" of 178 cm "
that was not the height of avg person , not in India or globally.
(the global avg has not reached 5' 10 yet...even after decades of relative peace time and far far better access to vastly better health care , diet, scientific understanding of diseases/cures/preventions etc etc)
(Indians today have an avg height of 5'5" , which is approx 1.5 inches below the global average.)
no nation reports having an avg of 5' 10" or above...
Quite a few states reporting a 5' 9" average tho.
This was such a great topic! The information required to understand why the hedge was there and why it was abandoned really makes you understand the economics and politics of late British imperialism in India!
The British didn't "tax stamps" in the American Colonies; the Stamp Tax was a tax for printed material. Every broadsheet, tract, etc had to have a stamp affixed to it to indicate the tax had been paid. Stamps were how British officials recognized the tax to have been paid, it wasn't what was being taxed.
Please more history lessons video like this and more about India please
GROW THE HEDGE!!!
Is "vachama gocharame" by thyagaraja playing in the background? Veena by Mysore Sundarachari Iyengar?
7:47 well it never really was about governing people, it was all about looting. The rise and fall of EIC is one of the most interesting topic. In the Early days of EIC getting control of Indian Subcontinent Warren Hastings trial regarding Rohillas war, Treatment of Raja Chetti Singh and Sacking of Begum of Awadh were some interesting incidents that are not so talked about.
The great wall of China vs the great hedge of India
There is a great wall in India but shorter than the one in China
There is a great wall in india the 2nd largest great wall after china built by rajputs to defend against islamic invaders.
5:39 that was not the averege human height at the time
Will you make a video on the tigray war?
What plant species was this hedge? Or was it of several species?
Allan Octavian Hume became one the the early advocates of Indian independence. He is known as one of the fathers of the Indian National Congress.
and the British still control India through INC...so you now know why he did what he did....
Allan Octavian Hume is the same guy who founded Indian National Congress, which in 1930 under the leadership of Gandhi was instrumental in conducting massive protests against the Salt tax and was also a thorn in the side of the British for decades.
Yep
His congress was mostly about rich educated Indians sending suggestions to the government.
@@rustomkanishka yep it provided a forum for upper class Indians to organise and share their opinions which organically developed into an organisation against the tyrannical rule of British.
@@monsieur1936 yep. It grew into something amazing. But in the start it was laughable.
Also the EIC made a third of their taxes from drugs. All the charitable houses started up by Parsis and all the big businesses, like Wadia and Tata, got their start selling drugs for the empire. They always tend to gloss over that part.
(I am not Parsi, even though my name sounds like it. My ancestors weren't in the subcontinent at that time)
@@rustomkanishka I did knew that EIC made money from drugs but never knew even Parsi businessmen did it. Thanks for enlightening me.
Mo Gazi Alias Mohandas Gandhi was a servant of Brits and a Evangelical Jihadi.
Today he is the most hated man.
3:38 It wasn't really "smuggling". Many of those were traditional traders whose communities have been involved in it for hundreds of years. Brits setup check posts and started extracting wealth from them and they took inner routes to avoid this. So Brits setup check posts there. This continued for sometime. Eventually, Brits setup the big hedge to close the gap.
The "tax on stamps" you mention at the beginning is, I assume, a reference to the Stamp Act, which was a lot more over-reaching than just stamps. It basically covered any legal document.
Yep. Anything that literate people needed, which was mostly rich dudes
Bureaucracy and profit 📈
what's the music playing behind?
This Over The Hedge prequel is crazy.
This was a Financial Times Article like two weeks ago
I would have liked to see what the hedge looked like then and if it still exists in some areas
It was AO Hume who started the congress party in 1885. EIC was effectively under British govt from start of 19th century through Board of Directors reporting to British appointed Secretary of India...
Credit to native Indian state for not taxing the basic necessity... Most native states were better governed despite the imposition of British foreign and trade policies at national level.. Some like Travancore aka Kerala had 47 percent literacy in 1950 when India under British had around 12 percent
Damn the new Civ 7 world wonder lookin quite scrumptious
I've watched only one video made on this topic, so this is pretty new for may indians as well
Alan Octavian Hume later founded political party namely Indian national Congress which is currently sitting in opposition.
I'm impressed each time I watch this channel! A new thing to learn every time!
That is the most British deterrence I’ve ever seen
“Those rabble rousers will never touch our salt mines now their is a clear hedge, hedge means don’t come in, no one would be rude enough to get past it”
There is whole book on this … good video ..
wasn’t taught this in school! so interesting
Solving a problem with a giant hedge is probably the British thing I have ever heard of.
The music is a little to loud and distracting
That same Scottish guy Alan Octavian Hume would start the Indian National Congress that would spearhead the freedom movement in the next century.
Good video.
Could use more Ben Folds music though
are there parts of that hedge that is still alive and growing today
What's the Point of a "dry hedge" in the First place, anyways? Why would you ever want a dead hedge over a living one?
This is a hedge so it easily disappeared by choice but it just makes me wonder what other great marvels of history disappeared without good drawing or photo like this.
I'm not surprised something like this was attempted but I am surprised it worked in both execution and purpose.
I can not help but think of the ecological impact that hedge might had. Did it hinder migration? Or introduced new species?
Some resemblance to the "Green Wall of Africa", to combat desertification?
2:37 end of the advert
Is it only me who thinks this video ended abruptly ❗️ Before ending, this had me wondering what was being told? Never heard of this thing before ..
India: 6-9 million people died. Do something.
British Raj: Raise the salt tax!
Let me guess Excessive Decadent Gardening?
Fascinating
does part of the hedge still exists today?
People persistently leaving salt on the ground would have been a very effective way to prevent the hedge from growing ..
What species of plant was the hedge comprised of?
Since coming to America I won't stop complaining to my wife about theblack of hedges
Americans bild walls the British build hedges,
The Chinese built walls
can you do a video about how british control over india influenced industrialisation?
Yo, if it weren't for Americans killing each other over slavery, Mumbai wouldn't exist.
It actually influenced the deindustrialization of India
Interesting
Build the Hedge!
North Dakota fact:
North Dakota uses the Central Timezone, which is 6 hours behind UTC. We have daylight savings time too.
Are there hedges there ?
@@johncasey1020 yes
What's the national animal of North dakota?
@@bujustic we have a few
Our state fish is the northern Pike
Our state equine is the Nakota horse
Our state bird is the western meadowlark
@@northdakotafacts thank you so much
If this hedge was actually built as a single plant, it would have easily been the largest singular organism on earth, beating out that 100 acre clonal aspen colony in Utah.
no hedge is ever a single organism, basically impossible.
Dude I swear make another video on India and it will be popular
Over the Hedge : India edition
Lore of The Great Hedge of India momentum 100
Allan Octavian Hume was founder of Indian National Congress.
'Grow the Hedge!' they cried (never).
Just a small note, but the leaders of Princely States were more often than not perfectly happy to follow British instructions. There wasn't much "strongarming" going on.
key word: leaders.
Oh did the appear in your dream last night to inform you about their feelings?
Anyways, only those rulers who agreed to become puppets of British were kept in power, and any who stood up against the British were dealt with, citing some garbage laws.
@@un-Adi That's the point? They were quite happy to follow the British because they were kept in power by the British.
If you are vastly rich having some adviser chap to deal with all the boring bits of your job so that you could get back to hunting and partying was awfully convenient, especially as he usually knew what he was doing better than you, was a security guaranty to your position and didn't get in your hair much. It ended up that their were very few Indian princes with an interest in local administration and those who were were usually very happy to have someone to cooperate with it on.
Do the next video on "How british industrialization was funded by India"
And what type of hedge was it??
what a meticulously detailed map of India