{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-thug-9780198854647","title":"Confessions of a Thug","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOften overshadowed by Kipling's \u003cem\u003eKim\u003c\/em\u003e or Forster's \u003cem\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Thug\u003c\/em\u003e (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture. Writing in the voice of a captured Thug, Taylor presents an Orientalist fantasy that is part picaresque adventure and part colonial \u003cem\u003eexposé\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Thug\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique glimpse of the colonial world in the making, revealing how the British imagined themselves to be omniscient and in complete control of their Indian subjects. This unique critical edition makes available a fascinating and significant work of Empire writing, in addition to excerpts from the original colonial texts that inspired Taylor's narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198854647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.90w x 1.30d","brand":"Philip Meadows Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44736571703477,"sku":"9780198854647","price":11.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d8136e3f-19c9-4301-95ea-9a52a71e7d26.jpg?v=1729609664","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/confessions-of-a-thug-9780198854647","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}