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unusual facts about North West Provinces



Indian Salt Service

In 1856, the government appointed the young William Chichele Plowden, Secretary of the Board of Revenue of the North West Provinces, to report on the establishment of a uniform system of revenue realisation from salt within the British Provinces, and he recommended the extension of the excise system, the reduction of duty, and the introduction of a system of licensing as the measures to achieve this goal.


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Edward J. Pitts

He was born in the North-West Provinces of India; his father was a colonel in the Indian Army, and a friend of Lord Raglan.