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"Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture-This new edition is based on the original 3-volume first edition from 1839 published by Oxford University Press, which is now extremely rare-One of the most important novels of British India, and comparable to Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924)-Two original sources carefully transcribed as appendices further explore the Thuggee-Introduction, comprehensive annotation, select bibliography and chronology of the author"Edited by Kim A. Wagner, Professor of Global and Imperial History, Queen Mary University of LondonKim A. Wagner is Professor of Global and Imperial History at Queen Mary, University of London. His research is situated at the cusp of Imperial and Global history, focussing on knowledge, crime and resistance in British India, and on colonial violence and warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. His publications include Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century

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Author

Philip Meadows Taylor; Kim A. Wagner (editor)

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192596864

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities