A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits
Author: James Hutton
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 184
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Author: James Hutton
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Hutton (Author of A Hundred Years Ago.)
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 184
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
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Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 3382331942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nile Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-05-14
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1139479245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet 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: Parama Roy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0520917685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Henry Schwarz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-02-19
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1444317342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the “criminal tribe” in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology and criminology Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under military Examines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the discrimination against the millions of people laboring under the stigma of criminal inheritance, producing a radical culture that contests stereotypes to reclaim their humanity
Author: Athelstane Baines
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-06-27
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 3112383885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jervoise Athelstane Baines
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: K. Wagner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-07-12
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0230590209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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.
Author: Thomas Edward Kebbel
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 494
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