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

by Kim A. Wagner

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349361542
• ISBN13: 9781349361540
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"