Thuggee: Banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India
Wagner, Kim A.
₹ 995.00
This book constitutes the first in-depth examination of thuggee as a type of banditry which emerged in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. Thuggee did not constitute a caste-like identity, and was a means of obtaining a livelihood reverted to by all strata of indian society in certain areas as such it constituted a highly institutionalised social practice related to issues of patronage and retainership, identity and legitimacy, and it was defined by the appropriation of high status rituals and the martial ethos...
ISBN 13: 9789380607764
ISBN 10: 9380607768
Year: 2014
Language: ENGLISH
Pages etc.: xxvi+261p., (16)b&w figs., (2)maps, abb., gloss., bibl., ind., 24cm.
Binding: Hardbound
Subject(s): History, Sociology
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