Thuggee E-Book

K. Wagner

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2007

Beschreibung

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.