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Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India

By Kim A. Wagner

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
0230547176, 9780230547179, 9780230590205
Open Library ID
OL10194605M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2828353 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Edition
First Edition
Pages
280\302
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Often described merely as a colonial construction, the phenomenon of thuggee remains one of the more contentious and controversial subjects of nineteenth-century south Asian history. Based largely on new material, this book constitutes the first in-depth examination of thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. The British usually described the thugs as fanatic assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet Wagner argues that the history of thuggee need no longer be limited to the study of its representation.

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