Miles Taylor is Professor of British History & Society at the Großbritannien-Zentrum/Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His most recent books are Empress: Queen Victoria and India (2018), and (co-ed.), Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s (2020).Tanuja Kothiyal is Professor of History in the School of Liberal Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi, India. She is the author of Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert (2016), and Co-Editor (with Farhana Ibrahim) of South Asian borderlands: mobility, history, affect (2022).

• Preface Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India 1. A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade 2. Monopoly, Excise and the Salt Supply Conundrum in British India 3. Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century 4. The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–1947 5. From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45 6. Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha 7. Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–31 8. Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–35 9. Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity Salt: An Afterword

Miles Taylor is Professor of British History & Society at the Großbritannien-Zentrum/Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His most recent books are Empress: Queen Victoria and India (2018), and (co-ed.), Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s (2020).Tanuja Kothiyal is Professor of History in the School of Liberal Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi, India. She is the author of Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert (2016), and Co-Editor (with Farhana Ibrahim) of South Asian borderlands: mobility, history, affect (2022).

• Preface Introduction: Salt, Protest and Public Health in Modern India 1. A Precarious Trade: The English East India Company and Its Interventions in the Balasore Salt Trade 2. Monopoly, Excise and the Salt Supply Conundrum in British India 3. Salt, Sovereignty and Law in Colonial India: The Case of Rajputana Salt in the Late Nineteenth Century 4. The Ungrudging Indian: The Political Economy of Salt in India, c. 1878–1947 5. From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45 6. Salt and the National Imaginary: The Photojournalism of the Dandi Satyagraha 7. Self-Sacrifice, Suffrage and Socialism: Gandhi and the Mobilisation of Women, 1930–31 8. Setting India on the Wrong Path: Robert McCarrison’s Goitre Research, 1906–35 9. Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity Salt: An Afterword