Constructing the criminal tribe in colonial India
Subtitle: acting like a thief
By: Henry Schwarz.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405120579
Subjects: Criminals -- India; India -- Denotified tribes; India -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Placing criminals, displacing thuggee: historical representation, "fact," and stereotype, c. 1830-2005; title: How to make a Thug: recipes for producing crime, 1830-1910; title: Discipline, reform, salvation: repression, reform, and the Thuggee precedent; title: Acting like a thief: from aesthetics of survival to the politics of liberation.