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Confessions of a Thug: A Riveting Crime Thriller Indian Literature Adventure Novel 19th Century India Based on Real Events in Colonial India a Thrilling Historical Fiction - Softcover

Taylor, Philip Meadows

 
9789388369107: Confessions of a Thug: A Riveting Crime Thriller Indian Literature Adventure Novel 19th Century India Based on Real Events in Colonial India a Thrilling Historical Fiction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9388369106 ISBN 13: 9789388369107
Verlag: Fingerprint! Publishing, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Be firm, be courageous, be subtle, be faithful; more you need not. These are the highest qualifications of a Thug . . .
and lead to certain success and high rank.
Welcome to the feudal India of the early nineteenth century where a band of thugs—cold-blooded, ruthless assassins, and dacoits—are rampaging on the streets, luring unsuspecting travellers only to kill and loot.
But the most notorious of their band, Ameer Ali, has been imprisoned, and he has a lot to confess. Responsible for 719 murders, he recounts his extraordinary life story which begins on a grave evening when he is the victim of a Thuggee attack. And the events unfold to envelop him in the lives of his perpetrators . . . till he becomes one of them.
A gut-wrenching memoir, Confessions of a Thug, which offers a glimpse into the feudal history of India, is one of the most sensational crime novels of its time.

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Born in 1808, in Liverpool, England, Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor came to India in 1823 to work as an assistant for Mr. Baxter, a merchant in Bombay. But with Baxter being bankrupt, the sixteen-year-old Taylor found a commission in the Nizam of Hyderabad’ s army. During his service, Taylor learned about India and became proficient in various languages. He wrote several books depicting and describing the Indian history, society, landscape, and characters. Confessions of a Thug, published while he was in England in 1840, was Taylor’ s first Indian novel. The book was an immediate success. The most significant novel about India before Kipling’ s Kim (1901), it popularised the word ‘ thug’ in the English language. Taylor followed it with Tipoo Sultaun (1840), which was also equally successful. His other works include Ralph Darnell (1865), Seeta (1872), and A Noble Queen, which was published posthumously in 1878.

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Verlag
Fingerprint! Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9388369106
ISBN 13 
9789388369107
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Anzahl der Seiten
616
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