Constructing the criminal tribe in colonial India
Subtitle: acting like a thief
By: Henry Schwarz
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781444317343
Subjects: Social conditions; Denotified tribes; Criminals; TRUE CRIME; General
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-160) and index.

Description based on print version record.
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.