Confessions of a Thug
Dead Dodo presents Captain Meadows Taylor’s ‘Confessions of a Thug’. Presented as a fantastic edition with a fully interactive table of contents.
 
Philip Meadows Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug is one of the most influential works ever written about India and one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a confession to a white sahib, the imprisoned Ameer Ali recounts his life as a member of the Thuggee, a secret religion cult practicing ritual mass murder and robbery.
 
Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor CSI, an Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist, was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of fifteen he was sent out to India to become a clerk to a Bombay merchant. The merchant was in financial difficulties, though. In 1824, Taylor gladly accepted a commission in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, to which service he remained devotedly attached throughout his long career. He was speedily transferred from military duty to a civil appointment, and in this capacity he acquired knowledge of the languages and the people of southern India which has seldom been equalled.

He studied the laws, geology, and the antiquities of the country, being one of the foremost early experts on megaliths. He was alternately judge, engineer, artist, and man of letters.
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Confessions of a Thug
Dead Dodo presents Captain Meadows Taylor’s ‘Confessions of a Thug’. Presented as a fantastic edition with a fully interactive table of contents.
 
Philip Meadows Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug is one of the most influential works ever written about India and one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a confession to a white sahib, the imprisoned Ameer Ali recounts his life as a member of the Thuggee, a secret religion cult practicing ritual mass murder and robbery.
 
Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor CSI, an Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist, was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of fifteen he was sent out to India to become a clerk to a Bombay merchant. The merchant was in financial difficulties, though. In 1824, Taylor gladly accepted a commission in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, to which service he remained devotedly attached throughout his long career. He was speedily transferred from military duty to a civil appointment, and in this capacity he acquired knowledge of the languages and the people of southern India which has seldom been equalled.

He studied the laws, geology, and the antiquities of the country, being one of the foremost early experts on megaliths. He was alternately judge, engineer, artist, and man of letters.
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Confessions of a Thug

by Philip Meadows Taylor
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Dead Dodo presents Captain Meadows Taylor’s ‘Confessions of a Thug’. Presented as a fantastic edition with a fully interactive table of contents.
 
Philip Meadows Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug is one of the most influential works ever written about India and one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a confession to a white sahib, the imprisoned Ameer Ali recounts his life as a member of the Thuggee, a secret religion cult practicing ritual mass murder and robbery.
 
Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor CSI, an Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist, was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of fifteen he was sent out to India to become a clerk to a Bombay merchant. The merchant was in financial difficulties, though. In 1824, Taylor gladly accepted a commission in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, to which service he remained devotedly attached throughout his long career. He was speedily transferred from military duty to a civil appointment, and in this capacity he acquired knowledge of the languages and the people of southern India which has seldom been equalled.

He studied the laws, geology, and the antiquities of the country, being one of the foremost early experts on megaliths. He was alternately judge, engineer, artist, and man of letters.

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ISBN-13: 9781508028154
Publisher: Dodo Collections
Publication date: 09/16/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction vii(11)
Note on the Text xviii(1)
Select Bibliography xix(1)
A Chronology of Philip Meadows Taylor xx(1)
Map of Central India and the Dukhun in 1817
xxi
CONFESSIONS OF A THUG
1(550)
Glossary 551
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