Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs
Author: Edward Thornton
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Published: 1837
Total Pages: 488
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Author: Edward Thornton
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Published: 1837
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Thornton
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 488
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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.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-10-30
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9394701974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Anglo-Hindustani handbook
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 1020
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caroline Reitz
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 0814209823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Detecting the Nation, Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumptions that detective fiction is a minor domestic genre that reinforces a distinction between metropolitan center and imperial periphery. Rather, Reitz argues, nineteenth-century detective fiction helped transform the concept of an island kingdom to that of a sprawling empire; detective fiction placed imperialism at the center of English identity by recasting what had been the suspiciously un-English figure of the turn-of-the-century detective as the very embodiment of both English principles and imperial authority. She supports this claim through reading such masters of the genre as Godwin, Dickens, Collins, and Doyle in relation to narratives of crime and empire such as James Mill's History of British India, narratives about Thuggee, and selected writings of Kipling and Buchan. Detective fiction and writings more specifically related to the imperial project, such as political tracts and adventure stories, were inextricably interrelated during this time.
Author: Athelstane Baines
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-06-27
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 3112383885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michigan. Public Domain Commission
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 1156
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