Thuggee : banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India / Kim A. Wagner
- 作者： Wagner, Kim A
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- 出版： Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2007
- 叢書名： Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
- 主題： Thugs (Indic criminal group)--India--Sindouse Region--History--19th century--Historiography , Thugs (Indic criminal group)--Government policy--India--Sindouse Region--History--19th century--Historiography
- ISBN： 9780230590205 、 0230590209
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- 一般註：Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Cambridge,2003) entitled: Thuggee and the construction of crime in early 19th century India
- 書目註：Often described merely as a colonial construction, the phenomenon ofthuggee remains one of the more contentious and controversial subjectsof Nineteenth-century South Asian History. Based largely on new material, this book constitutes the first in-depth examination of thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. Thuggee was not an essence or a caste-like phenomonon, but ameans of obtaining a livelihood reverted to by all strata of Indian society in certain areas. As such it constituted a highly institutionalized practice related to issues of patronage and retainership, identity and legitimacy, and it was defined by the appropriation of high status rituals and the martial ethos. 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 Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005170058 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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.
內容註
Thuggee reassessed -- PART 1 -- 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 -- PART 2 -- Sindouse -- The practice of thuggee -- The itinerantunderworld -- The world of the thugs -- PART III -- Halhed in Sindouse - a second look -- Sindouse-the aftermath -- Continued measures against thugs -- The operations commence -- The thuggee campaign -- From Sindouse to Sagar