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

The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India

Martine van Woerkens, Catherine Tihanyi

375 pages • first pub 2002 (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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