Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India by K. Wagner
Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India

K. Wagner

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

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

K. Wagner

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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 tha...

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