Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India Book

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Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India, British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of , Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India

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Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
Written by author Martine Van Woerkens
Published by University of Chicago Press, November 2002
British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of
British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of

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Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
Introduction 1
Pt. I British India and Crime: The Thugs between Myth and Reality
1 Colonizers and Bandits 13
2 The Anti-Thug Campaign 43
3 Who Were the Thugs? 109
Pt. II The Colonizers between Science and the Imaginary
4 William Sleeman and Meadows Taylor: Parallel Biographies 189
5 William Sleeman and Thug Science 201
6 Meadows Taylor's Imaginary Discourse 235
7 Later Thug Adventures 261
Conclusion 287
Thug Lexicon or Ramasee 295
Notes 317
References 331
Index 345

Title: Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 6.000 cm (2.36 inches)

Heigh : 9.000 cm (3.54 inches)

Depth: 1.100 cm (0.43 inches)

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	List of Illustrations
	Translator's Acknowledgments
	Acknowledgments
	Note on Transcription
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	British India and Crime: The Thugs between Myth and Reality
1	Colonizers and Bandits	13
2	The Anti-Thug Campaign	43
3	Who Were the Thugs?	109
Pt. II	The Colonizers between Science and the Imaginary
4	William Sleeman and Meadows Taylor: Parallel Biographies	189
5	William Sleeman and Thug Science	201
6	Meadows Taylor's Imaginary Discourse	235
7	Later Thug Adventures	261
	Conclusion	287
	Thug Lexicon or Ramasee	295
	Notes	317
	References	331
	Index	345