Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India (Cambridge Imperial & Post Colonial Studies) (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

by KimA.Wagner (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $145.01

  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.