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

by Kim A. Wagner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230547176
• ISBN13: 9780230547179
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"