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028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/00072 _d: 12/12/2023
082			_a364.109 WAG
100			_aWagner, Kim A.
245			_aThuggee _b: banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India. _c/ Kim A. Wagner.
260			_a, Basingstoke _b: Palgrave Macmillan _c, 2007.
300			_a xx, 281 pages _b: illustrations, maps _c ; 23 cm.
365			_b696
520			_a"Often described merely as a colonial construction, the phenomenon of thuggee remains one of the more contentious and controversial subjects of nineteenth-century South Asian history. Based largely on new material, this book constitutes the first in-depth examination of thuggee as a type of banditry emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. Thuggee was not an essence or a caste-like phenomenon, but a means of obtaining a livelihood reverted to by all strata of Indian society in certain areas. As such it constituted a highly institutionalized practice related to issues of patronage and retainership, identity and legitimacy, and it was defined by the appropriation of high status rituals and the martial ethos. 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."
650			_aThugs
650			_aHistoriography
650			_aTravelers
650			_aBanditry
700			_aKim A. Wagner
942			_cBOOK
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