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The strangled traveler : colonial imaginings and the Thugs of India
- Title
- The strangled traveler : colonial imaginings and the Thugs of India / Martine van Woerkens ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.
- Author
- Wœrkens, Martine van.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Tihanyi, Catherine.
- Description
- xv, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Uniform Title
- Voyageur étranglé. English
- Alternative Title
- Voyageur étranglé.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-343) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. British India and Crime: The Thugs between Myth and Reality. 1. Colonizers and Bandits. 2. The Anti-Thug Campaign. 3. Who Were the Thugs? -- Pt. II. The Colonizers between Science and the Imaginary. 4. William Sleeman and Meadows Taylor: Parallel Biographies. 5. William Sleeman and Thug Science. 6. Meadows Taylor's Imaginary Discourse. 7. Later Thug Adventures. Thug Lexicon or Ramasee.
- ISBN
- 0226850854 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226850862 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226850863
- LCCN
- 2002007633
- OCLC
- ocm49799654
- SCSB-4318965
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries