Thug
Thug
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Summary
This is the story of the notorious Indian Thugee cult, from its beginnings in the late 17th century to its eventual demise at the hands of East India Company officer, William Sleeman, in 1840. In the intervening centuries as many as 30,000 people disappeared on the roads of northern India.
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Thug by Mike Dash
Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the Thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way with such efficiency that over the years tens of thousands of men, women and children simply vanished without trace. Mike Dash, one of our best popular historians, has devoted years to combing archives in both India and Britain to discover how the Thugs lived and worked. Painstakingly researched and grippingly written. Thug tells, for the first time the full story of the Thugs' rise and fall from its beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its eventual demise at the hands of British officer William Sleeman, in 1840.
Mike Dash is a Cambridge educated historian. He has worked as a magazine publisher, and is the author of four previous books including the bestsellers Tulipomania and Batavia's Graveyard. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862076044 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862076049 |
| Title | Thug |
| Author | Mike Dash |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2005-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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