Confessions Of A Thug The 1839 Text Philip Meadows Taylor Kim A Wagner Editor by Philip Meadows Taylor, Kim A. Wagner (editor) 9780198854647, 0198854641 instant download after payment.

-This new edition is based on the original 3-volume first edition from 1839 published by Oxford University Press, which is now extremely rare

-One of the most important novels of British India, and comparable to Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924)

-Two original sources carefully transcribed as appendices further explore the Thuggee

-Introduction, comprehensive annotation, select bibliography and chronology of the author"

Edited by Kim A. Wagner, Professor of Global and Imperial History, Queen Mary University of London

Kim A. Wagner is Professor of Global and Imperial History at Queen Mary, University of London. His research is situated at the cusp of Imperial and Global history, focussing on knowledge, crime and resistance in British India, and on colonial violence and warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. His publications include Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India (Palgrave, 2007); Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of Thuggee (OUP India, 2009); The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies and the Making of the Indian Uprising (Peter Lang, 2010); The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 (Hurst/OUP/Penguin, 2017); and Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre (Yale, 2019).

Introduction

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of Philip Meadows Taylor

THE CONFESSIONS OF A THUG

Appendix

Glossary

Explanatory Notes