Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor
Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug (1839) is the most influential novel about India prior to Kipling's Kim and was one of the bestselling sensation novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a confession to a white `sahib' the imprisoned Ameer Ali recounts his life as a member of the Thuggee, a secret religious cult practising ritual mass murder and robbery. Taylor uncovered evidence of the crimes committed by bands of Thugs as a Superintendent of Police in India during the 1820s. Introducing a new standard of ethnographic realism to western fiction about India, Confessions of a Thug is a strikingly vivid, chilling and immensely readable thriller. This unique critical edition makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire writing. This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate study of colonial literature and empire writing; Cultural Studies.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780192880215 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192880217 |
| Title | Confessions of a Thug |
| Author | Philip Meadows Taylor |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1998-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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