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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Keywords
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Reviews
Shortlisted for the 2008 History Today-Longman Book of the Year Award. See the History Today website for more information:
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'This is a monograph by a young scholar which takes a notoriously difficult problem in 19th century colonial history the rumoured religious cult of Thuggee whereby travellers in a remote region of Uttar Pradesh, were randomly strangled and thrown down wells - and, with persistence and intelligence, dissects it, showing how much Thuggee really existed, and how much was a myth invented by the Englishmen who set out to extirpate it. Wagner convincingly answers this old problem, and succeeds against the odds in making his text readable and not getting bogged down in theory.'
- Committee of the 2008 History Today-Longman Book of the Year Award
'Thuggee, the supposed ritual murder of travellers on India's roads in the early-nineteenth century, has been a source of contention ever since among colonial officials, nationalists and postcolonial theorists. Kim Wagner has finally cracked the problem, providing the most detailed and convincing analysis yet of its origin and nature.'
- C A Bayly, St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, UK
'Reading colonial sources against the grain..Thuggee successfully demystifies a much misunderstood phenomenon.'
- David Hall-Matthews, Times Literary Supplement
'This excellent work brings together specific episodes with the general problem of understanding a past world, by writing a micro-history of the circumstances of the murder and disappearance of Lieutenant John Maunsell near Agra, India in 1812...Well-written, this book is also methodologically acute.'
- Jeremy Black, History Today
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thuggee
Book Subtitle: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India
Authors: Kim A. Wagner
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230590205
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-54717-9Published: 12 July 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36154-0Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59020-5Published: 12 July 2007
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 281
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, Asian History, History of Britain and Ireland, European History, Modern History