Confessions of a Thug

by Philip Meadows Taylor

Overview

Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug is one of the most influential works ever written about India and one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a confession to a white sahib, the imprisoned Ameer AU recounts his life as a member of the Thuggee, a secret religion cult practicing ritual mass murder and robbery. Featuring a map, a glossary, and a critical introduction, Oxford's is the only available edition of this important work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789356843134
Publisher:	Diamond Magazine Private Limited
Publication date:	08/01/2024
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

Philip Meadows Taylor

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).

Table of Contents

IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Philip Meadows TaylorTHE CONFESSIONS OF A THUGAppendixGlossaryExplanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

"I strongly recommend the purchase of this novel to casual readers who want to enjoy an adventure that has some hints of history." — Pennsylvania Literary Journal

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