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Author : James Hutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits written by James Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9394701974
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Thugs and Dacoits written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes focus on select aspects of the British imperial archives: the accounts of discovery and exploration fauna and flora, geography, climate the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes including the Mutiny of 1857-58 and the civilisational mission. This volume documents how the practice of thuggee was viewed by the British before: as if it symbolized everything that was wrong with the social order in India. The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration.
Author : William Henry Sleeman
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781298116239
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Thugs Or Phansigars of India written by William Henry Sleeman and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Edward Balfour
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Lewis Beverley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107091195
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Hyderabad, British India, and the World written by Eric Lewis Beverley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.
Author : K. Wagner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590209
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Thuggee written by K. Wagner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Henry Sleeman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ramaseeana written by Sir William Henry Sleeman and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dickenson Field
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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Chronological Table Of, and Index To, the Indian Statute-book from the Year 1834 written by Charles Dickenson Field and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Parama Roy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917685
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Indian Traffic written by Parama Roy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its place in the exchanges between South Asian and British, Hindu and Muslim, female and male, and subaltern and elite actors. Roy draws on a variety of sources—religious texts, novels, travelogues, colonial archival documents, and films—making her book genuinely interdisciplinary. She explores the ways in which questions of originality and impersonation function, not just for "western" or "westernized" subjects, but across a range of identities. For example, Roy considers the Englishman's fascination with "going native," an Irishwoman's assumption of Hindu feminine celibacy, Gandhi's impersonation of femininity, and a Muslim actress's emulation of a Hindu/Indian mother goddess. Familiar works by Richard Burton and Kipling are given fresh treatment, as are topics such as the "muscular Hinduism" of Swami Vivekananda. Indian Traffic demonstrates that questions of originality and impersonation are in the forefront of both the colonial and the nationalist discourses of South Asia and are central to the conceptual identity of South Asian postcolonial theory itself.
Author : Edward Balfour
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Balfour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific ... written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Balfour
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
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Download or read book The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial Industrial, and Scientific written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martine van Wœrkens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226850862
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Strangled Traveler written by Martine van Wœrkens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Thugs and developed a compulsive fascination with tales of their monstrous deeds. Did the Thugs really exist, or did the British invent them as an excuse to seize tighter control of India? Drawing on historical and anthropological accounts, Indian tales and sacred texts, and detailed analyses of the secret Thug language, Martine van Woerkens reveals for the first time the real story of the Thugs. Many different groups of Thugs actually did exist over the centuries, but the monsters the British made of them had much more to do with colonial imaginings of India than with the real Thugs. Tracing these imaginings down to the present, van Woerkens reveals the ongoing roles of the Thugs in fiction and film from Frankenstein to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Author : Mike Dash
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 1847084737
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Thug written by Mike Dash and published by Granta. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the Thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way with such efficiency that over the years tens of thousands of men, women and children simply vanished without trace. Mike Dash, one of our best popular historians, has devoted years to combing archives in both India and Britain to discover how the Thugs lived and worked. Painstakingly researched and grippingly written, Thug tells, for the first time the full story of the Thugs' rise and fall from the cult's beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its eventual demise at the hands of British East India Company officer William Sleeman in 1840.
Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139479245
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Islam and the Army in Colonial India written by Nile Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and their military followers to recreate the extraordinary encounter between a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals, drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion while at the same time attempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to light the existence of a distinct 'barracks Islam' and shows its importance to the cultural no less than the military history of colonial India.
Author : Kingsley Bolton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415243971
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Triad Societies written by Kingsley Bolton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
