Thuggee Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India

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This book provides a reassessment of thuggee in the context of banditry and the colonial state in early nineteenth-century India.

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Introduction
Thuggee reassessed
Engaging the colonial 'archives of repression'
Thuggee in pre-colonial India
The discovery of thuggee, Etawah 1809
Thomas Perry and the first arrests
N.J. Halhed in Sindouse, Oct. 1812
Sindouse
The practice of thuggee
The itinerant underworld
The world of the thugs
Halhed in Sindouse
a second look
Sindouse
the aftermath
Continued measures against thugs
The operations commence
The thuggee campaign
From Sindouse to Sagar
Epilogue
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