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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Confessions of a Thug, Volume 1: In the service of H. H. the Nizam |
| Author(s) | Captain Taylor, Meadows |
| Section | Section II: Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire |
| Date | 1839 |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Richard Bentley |
| Library | British Library |
| Reference | T7634 |
| Region | South Asia |
| Names | Captain Meadows Taylor, Ameer Ali, George, Lord Auckland, Lord William Cavendish Bentinck (pxix), Feringhea (pxiii), Colonel Sleeman (ppxiv, xvi), Haidar Ali, Hyder Ali (p187) |
| Places | India, Holkar (p5), Sheopoor (p62), Nagpoor (pp73, 100, 125), Mungloor (p132), Hyderabad (pp167, 182, 186, 202, 298) |
| Topics | fiction, Indian literature, travel, Thugs, Thuggee, soldier, dangers of travelling in India, law (ppxiii, 2), theft, crime and punishment (ppvii, xiii, 94, 266-278), transport (pvii), poor government (pvii), luxury goods (pix, 24), gold (ppix, 5, 24, 150, 278, 304), jewels (ppix, 150, 183, 202, 304), corruption (pix), religion, Hinduism (ppix, 65, 293), Islam, Mohammedanism (ppxi, 26-33, 64, 133, 296, 306), statistics of sentences and deaths of Thugs awaiting trial (pxx), prostitution (pxxii), hunting (pp4, 46), servants (p5), death, murder (pp15, 85, 143, 175, 263), opium (pp19, 117, 169), trade (p22), Houris (pp26, 199), superstition, Goor (pp25, 34, 71, 88, 90, 149), religious tolerance between Thugs (pp39, 64), Shakespeare (pp42, 62), natural history (p55), tiger (p55), festival of Dasera (p63), Thuggee religion (pp64-69), Thuggee initiation ceremony (pp70, 84, 90, 149), torture (pp95, 272), revenge (p119), sacrifice (p121), fast (p121), strangling technique (p123), burial customs, burial of victims (pp86, 146, 177, 289), customs officials (p156), Zenana (pp160-183, 187, 192, 217, 244), escape from Zenana (pp217, 233), dress (pp179, 184, 188), colonial rule, colonial power (pp186, 298), weapons, superior European weapons (p186), nationalism, anti colonialism (p186), music, dance (pp189, 323), love, romance (pp189, 249, 234), caste (p269), health and disease (p288), headache cures (p288), Mahabharut (p293), Char Minar (p306) |
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