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Confessions Of A Thug
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Author : Philip Meadows Taylor
language : en
Publisher: RICHARD BENTLEY
Release Date : 2013-09
Confessions Of A Thug written by Philip Meadows Taylor and has been published by RICHARD BENTLEY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
Confessions of a Thug Confessions of a Thug is an English novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor in 1839 based on the Thuggee cult in British India. Ameer Ali, the anti-hero protagonist of Confessions of a Thug, was said to be based on a real Thug called Syeed Amir Ali (or Feringhea), whom the author was acquainted with. Confessions of a Thug went on to become a bestseller in 19th century Britain. The story of the Thuggee cult was popularized by Confessions of a Thug, leading to the Hindi word "thug" entering the English language. The tale of crime which forms the subject of the following pages is, alas! almost all true; what there is of fiction has been supplied only to connect the events, and make the adventures of Ameer Ali as interesting as the nature of his horrible profession would permit me. In this manner Thuggee was found to be in active practice all over India. The knowledge of its existence was at first confined to the central provinces, but as men were apprehended from a distance, they gave information of others beyond them in the almost daily commission of murder: the circle gradually widened till it spread over the whole continent—and from the foot of the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, from Cutch to Assam, there was hardly a province in the whole of India where Thuggee had not been practised—where the statements of the informers were not confirmed by the disinterment of the dead!
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Author : Meadows Taylor
language : en
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Release Date : 1839
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Author : Meadows Taylor
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-01-31
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Author : Meadows Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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Author : Philip Meadows Taylor
language : en
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Release Date : 2022-10-11
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language : en
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Release Date : 2021
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Author : Meadows Taylor
language : en
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Release Date : 1840
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Author : Taylor Philip Meadows (author)
language : en
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Release Date : 1901
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Author : Meadows Philip Taylor
language : en
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Release Date : 2011-12
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"""Reader, if you can embody these descriptions, you have Ameer Ali before you; and while you gaze on the picture in your imagination and look on the mild and expressive face you may have fancied, you, as I was, would be the last person to think that he was a professed murderer, and one who in the course of his life has committed upwards of seven hundred murders."" Set in a British prison in Sagar, India in 1832, and inspired by actual events, Confessions of a Thug (1839) is the picaresque tale of north Indian Thug Ameer Ali, who strangled over seven hundred people in his lifetime. Kidnapped as a child by a criminal gang devoted to the Hindu goddess Kali, Ameer Ali recounts how he rose to prominence as a Thug leader, how he fell ignominiously from power, and how he took vengeance on his enemies. Hero and villain, victim and victimizer, Ameer Ali is a unique figure in Victorian literature: a charming mass murderer. The most famous Anglo-Indian novel of the nineteenth century, Confessions of a Thug is a canonical example of British Orientalism, as well as an unsettling invitation to early Victorian readers to identify with an unrepentant predator. Philip Meadows Taylor was born in Liverpool in 1808. Sent to India at fifteen to make his fortune, he became a lieutenant in the Nizam of Hyderabad's Army. Fluent in several Eastern languages, Taylor was named Assistant Superintendent of Police for the southwestern districts in the Nizam's Dominions, becoming responsible, at age eighteen, for the safety of over a million people. His investigations of Thuggee (thagi), a mysterious murder cult that claimed thousands of lives annually, inspired Confessions of a Thug, which drew attention to the inadequacy of native law enforcement in India. The novel was an immediate success. After serving two decades as an imperial administrator, Taylor moved to Dublin, where he devoted his remaining years to writing novels about British India, including Tara: A Mahratta Tale (1863), Ralph Darnell (1865), and Seeta (1872). He died in 1876. " " Matthew Kaiser is Associate Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept and the editor of five books, including Alan Dale's A Marriage Below Zero, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug. His work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals and essay collections.
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Author : Philip Meadows Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
Confessions Of A Thug written by Philip Meadows Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Criminals categories.