Screen LibraryThuggee Banditry and the british in early nineteenth-century India /
Based largely on new material, this book examines 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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series |
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Based largely on new material, this book examines 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. Shortlisted for the 2008 History Today-Longman Book of the Year Award. See the History Today website for more information: http://www.historytoday.com/Faq.aspx?m=408&amid=408 'This is a monograph by a young scholar which takes a notoriously difficult problem in 19th century colonial history -- the rumoured religious cult of Thuggee whereby travellers in a remote region of Uttar Pradesh, were randomly strangled and thrown down wells - and, with persistence and intelligence, dissects it, showing how much Thuggee really existed, and how much was a myth invented by the Englishmen who set out to |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 304 p. |
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9780230547179 9780230590205 : 0230590209 : |
| CLC: | D735.188-09 |
| Contents: | Introduction Thuggee reassessed PART 1 Engaging the colonial 'archives of repression' Thuggee in pre-colonial India The discovery of thuggee, Etawah 1809 Thomas Perry and the first arrests N.J. Halhed in Sindouse, Oct. 1812 PART 2 Sindouse The practice of thuggee The itinerant underworld The world of the thugs PART III Halhed in Sindouse - a second look Sindouse - the aftermath Continued measures against thugs The operations commence The thuggee campaign From Sindouse to Sagar Epilogue. |