The Strangled Traveler
Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
Translated by Catherine Tihanyi
375 pages, 2 maps, 18 line drawings 6 x 9
©
2002
Cloth $65.00
ISBN: 9780226850856
Published November 2002
Paper $27.00
ISBN: 9780226850863
Published November 2002
List of Illustrations
Translator's Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
Introduction
Part I. British India and Crime: The Thugs between Myth and Reality
1. Colonizers and Bandits
2. The Anti-Thug Campaign
3. Who Were the Thugs?
Part II. The Colonizers between Science and the Imaginary
4. William Sleeman and Meadows Taylor: Parallel Biographies
5. William Sleeman and Thug Science
6. Meadows Taylor's Imaginary Discourse
7. Later Thug Adventures
Conclusion
Thug Lexicon or Ramasee
Notes
References
Index
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