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The Great Hedge of India: a lost wonder of the world

The impenetrable 2500 mile Great Hedge of India was constructed in the 1840s to control trade between British India and the Princely States. Roy Moxham talks to Jonathan Freedland about what an epic scale the Great Hedge was built on and why it was built.

First broadcast on The Long View, 14 March 2017.

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