The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India by Catherine Tihanyi, Martine Van Woerkens

The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India

Catherine Tihanyi, Martine Van Woerkens

375 pages

3 editions

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British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repres...

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