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Title

Stranglers and bandits : a historical anthology of thuggee / edited by Kim A. Wagner.

Publication

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Wagner, Kim A.

Description

xvi, 318 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Thuggee, the controversial cult of ritual highway murderers "discovered" by the British in early nineteenth-century India, is one of the most sensational and contentious practices in South Asian history. This anthology brings together primary sources from the period of British involvement with thuggee many of which have long languished in the archives. It provides an insight into the production of colonial knowledge and explores how far the authentic voices of the accused thugs could be discerned in the detailed interviews and interrogations conducted by the British. The volume also includes a wide range of popular accounts and academic assessments from 1824 to 2006 shedding light on the shifting interpretations of this custom over the past two centuries" -- from book jacket.

Alternative Title

Stranglers & bandits

Subject

• Thugs (Indic criminal group) > History > 19th century > Sources
• Thugs (Indic criminal group) > History > 19th century > Chronology
• Thugs (Indic criminal group) > Historiography

Note

• Includes glossary.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]- 313).

Contents

Introduction --- Part I: Thuggee in Pre-colonial India. 1. Early India -- 2. Indigenous References -- 3. Early European Accounts --- Part II: The Discovery of Thuggee. 4. The First British Accounts -- 5. Early Measures -- 6. Confusion of Terminology -- 7. The First Thug Trials -- 8. Thuggee in Sindouse -- 9. The Phansigars of Southern India --- Part III: The Anti-thuggee Campaign of the 1830s. 10. Commencement of Operations -- 11. The Campaign --- Part IV: Literary and Popular Representations of Thuggee. 12. The Nineteenth Century -- 13. The Twentieth Century and beyond --- Part V. Modern Historiography. 14. Representation of Thuggee.

Call Number

JFD 12-2449

ISBN

• 9780195698152
• 0195698150

LCCN

2009341758

OCLC

277205295

Title

Stranglers and bandits : a historical anthology of thuggee / edited by Kim A. Wagner.

Imprint

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]- 313).

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Contributor biographical information

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Wagner, Kim A.

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Stranglers & bandits

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Online version: Stranglers and bandits. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 (OCoLC)681457007

Research Call Number

JFD 12-2449