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Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult

Author:

Mike Dash (author)

Language:

English

Original language:

English

Publisher:

Granta Books

Category:

History

Publication year:

2005

ISBN:

1-86207-604-9

Pages:

356

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Table of Contents:

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• Author's Note
• Glossary of Indian Words
• Maps
  • Gazetteer
  • India in 1930
  • Northern and Central India, c.1830
  • Etawah, the Thug homelands and the ravine country, c.1812

• Prologue: The Road to Lucknadown

1. 'Murdered in Circumstances Which Defied Detection'
2. 'An Independent Race of Men'
3. 'Awful Secrets'
4. Mr Halhed's Revenge
5. 'The Infamous System of Thuggee'
6. Scarf and Sword
7. Feringeea
8. Sleeman
9. 'A Very Good Remuneration for Murdering a Man'
10. The Devil's Banker
11. Approvers
12. The Omen of the Owl
13. 'A Double Weight of Irons'
14. Sleeman's Machine
15. In Cutcherry
16. Demon Devotees
17. The Last Days of Thuggee
18. The Gallows and the Drop
19. Across the Black Water

• Appendix: How Many Dead?

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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