Thuggee : banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India /

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagner, Kim A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Temas:
1800-1899
Thugs (Indic criminal group) > India > Sindouse Region > History > 19th century > Historiography.
Thugs (Indic criminal group) > Government policy > India > Sindouse Region > History > 19th century > Historiography.
TRUE CRIME > General.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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