The Strangled Traveler
Subtitle: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India
Contributors: Catherine Tihanyi (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780226850856
Subjects: Anthropology; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; India - History; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; India; Anthropology - General; Asia - India; Travel / Asia / India; Asia - India & South Asia; Thugs
First sentence: In the eyes of William Sleeman, Curven Smith, James Hutton and others, the Thugs were the only criminals worthy of interest.