{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-thug-paperback","title":"Confessions of a Thug - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Meadows Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKim A. Wagner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOften overshadowed by Kipling's \u003cem\u003eKim\u003c\/em\u003e or Forster's \u003cem\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Thug\u003c\/em\u003e (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture. Writing in the voice of a captured Thug, Taylor presents an Orientalist fantasy that is part picaresque adventure and part colonial \u003cem\u003eexposé\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Thug\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique glimpse of the colonial world in the making, revealing how the British imagined themselves to be omniscient and in complete control of their Indian subjects. This unique critical edition makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire writing, in addition to excerpts from the original colonial texts that inspired Taylor's narrative.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Meadows Taylor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKim 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 \u003cem\u003eThuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2007); \u003cem\u003eStranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of Thuggee\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP India, 2009); \u003cem\u003eThe Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies and the Making of the Indian Uprising\u003c\/em\u003e (Peter Lang, 2010); \u003cem\u003eThe Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857\u003c\/em\u003e (Hurst\/OUP\/Penguin, 2017); and \u003cem\u003eAmritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale, 2019).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457109180594,"sku":"9780198854647","price":15.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/8b835b8882fb5b43f205092b4a37fda5.webp?v=1778876595","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/confessions-of-a-thug-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}