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'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his
ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or
Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten
classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most
influential novel of early nineteenth-century British India. This
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 exposé. Confessions of a Thug 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.
A strange page in the book of human life is this! Thought I, as he
left the room. That man, the perpetrator of so many hundred
murders, thinks on the past with satisfaction and pleasure; nay he
takes a pride in recalling the events of his life, almost every one
of which is a murder, and glories in describing the minutest
particulars of his victims, and the share he had in their
destruction, with scarcely a symptom of remorse! Once or twice only
has he winced while telling his fearful story, and what agitated
him most at the commencement of his tale I have yet to hear.
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Seeta - Vol. 3
Meadows Taylor
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