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Confessions of a Thug (Oxford World's Classics) by Philip Meadows Taylor is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug (1839) is the most influential novel about India before Kipling's Kim and was one of the best-selling crime novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a confession to a white 'sahib' the imprisoned Ameer Ali recounts his life as a devoted follower of Thuggee, a secret religious cult practising ritual mass murder and robbery. Taylor uncovered evidence of the crimes committed by bands of Thugs as a Superintendent of Police in India during the 1820s. Introducing a new standard of ethnographic realism to western fiction about India, Confessions of a Thug is a strikingly vivid, chilling and immensely readable thriller. This unique critical edition makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire writing.

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Author

Philip Meadows Taylor

Publisher

MacMay

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192880215

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Rating

3.56 / 5 (137 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13