Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult - Hardcover

Dash, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862076049 ISBN 13: 9781862076044

Publisher: Granta Books, 2005

Synopsis

Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the Thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way with such efficiency that over the years tens of thousands of men, women and children simply vanished without trace. Mike Dash, one of our best popular historians, has devoted years to combing archives in both India and Britain to discover how the Thugs lived and worked. Painstakingly researched and grippingly written. Thug tells, for the first time the full story of the Thugs' rise and fall from its beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its eventual demise at the hands of British officer William Sleeman, in 1840.

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Review:

'A complicated story, made fascinating and immensely readable' -- Times Literary Supplement

'Cracking book... Dash brings a confident organisation to his material' -- The Telegraph

'For those interested in the wilder shores of human experience, Thug is an invaluable guide' -- The Times

'I read his book practically at one sitting (and have been having stealthy, silken nightmares ever since)' -- Eric Ormsby, The New York Sun

'Mike Dash has carved a fine place for himself among historians of the hauntingly bizarre' -- Andrew Roberts

'The only dust in the narrative is that of India’s backroads' -- The Independent on Sunday

‘Bloody Fascinating Stuff’ -- Sunday Sport

‘This is a fine book. It is well sourced and engagingly written...level- headed and clear- eyed, neither traditional nor revisionist’ -- George Rosie, Sunday Herald (Glasgow)

‘Well written, thoroughly researched volume... after reading it, one feels a slight elation’ -- BBC History

‘carefully researched and often fascinating account’ -- Literary Review

About the Author:

Mike Dash is a Cambridge educated historian. He has worked as a magazine publisher, and is the author of four previous books including the bestsellers Tulipomania and Batavia's Graveyard. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1862076049
• ISBN 13: 9781862076044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320