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9780230547179

Thuggee Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230547179

  • ISBN10:

    0230547176

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-08-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book provides a reassessment of thuggee in the context of banditry and the colonial state in early nineteenth-century India.

Author Biography

KIM A. WAGNER completed his PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2003. He is currently a Research Fellow at King's College Cambridge, and Associate Researcher at the University of Edinburgh. He works on banditry and the methodological use of trial records, as well as colonial fears of indigenous conspiracies.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Thuggee reassessed
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
Sindouse
The practice of thuggee
The itinerant underworld
The world of the thugs
Halhed in Sindouse
a second look
Sindouse
the aftermath
Continued measures against thugs
The operations commence
The thuggee campaign
From Sindouse to Sagar
Epilogue
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