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They murdered more than a million travellers, never spilling a drop of blood. Their weapon was treachery, their sacrament sugar, their goddess Kali. The Thugs, in the 1830s, were the enemy within the burgeoning British Empire, and the colonial reaction to them still haunts India. This is a journey into that dark and mysterious world of Indian crime, past and present, into prisons and gangster hideouts, probing the nature of crime and punishment in a land where the line between good and evil can be as murky as the Ganges.
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Remarkable . . . part biography, part detective story, part social history . . . A thoroughly fascinating read, but . . . much more than that: an important book. One of the best travelogues I have read in years. (William Dalrymple, Sunday Times)
Engages wittily with its subject, crossing and recrossing the borderland between law-enforcers and law-breakers. (TLS)
He neither eulogises nor extenuates . . . [is] sympathetic without being condescending, humorous without a trace of sarcasm, and imaginative without getting bedazzled by the inevitable culture shock . . . A fine piece of work (Literary Review)
A fascinating look at crime in Indian Society. (Sunday Times)
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Engages wittily with its subject, crossing and recrossing the borderland between law-enforcers and law-breakers. (TLS)
He neither eulogises nor extenuates . . . [is] sympathetic without being condescending, humorous without a trace of sarcasm, and imaginative without getting bedazzled by the inevitable culture shock . . . A fine piece of work (Literary Review)
A fascinating look at crime in Indian Society. (Sunday Times)
Through India in search of bandits, the Thug cult and the British Raj
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- PublisherRobinson
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1841195685
- ISBN 13 9781841195681
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