Confessions of a Thug

Confessions of a Thug 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

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Philip Meadows Taylor


• THE CONFESSIONS OF A THUG


• Appendix


• Glossary


• Explanatory Notes

About the author

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).

Summary

Confessions of a Thug 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

Additional text

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

Product details

• Authors: Philip Meadows Taylor
• Assisted by: Kim A. Wagner (Editor), Wagner Kim A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.07.2024
• EAN: 9780198854647
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885464-7
• No. of pages: 608
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Crime & mystery, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary