The Imperial Archives from Discovery to the Civilisational Mission: English Writings on India, Volume 6: Thugs and Dacoits

Contents
Prefatory Note
General Introduction: Archive and Empire
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. J. Shakespeare. ‘Observations Regarding Badheks and T’hegs.’ Asiatic Researches 13 (1820): 282–292
2. [Doctor] Sherwood. ‘Of the Murderers Called Phansigars’ [1816]. Asiatic Researches 13 (1820): 250–282
3. W.H. Sleeman. Ramaseeana, or, A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs. Calcutta: GH Huttmann, Military Orphan Press, 1836
4. W.H. Sleeman. Thugs, or, Phansigars of India. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839
5. W.H. Sleeman. Report on the Depredations Committed by the Thug Gangs of Upper and Central India. Calcutta: GH Huttmann, Military Orphan Press, 1840
6. J.A.R. Stevenson. ‘Some Account of the Phansigars, or Gang-Robbers and of the Shudgarshids, or Tribes of Jugglers.’ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1 (1834): 280–283
7. H.H. Spry. ‘Some Accounts of the Gang Murderers of Central India, Commonly Called Thugs; Accompanying the Skulls of Seven of Them.’ The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany 8 (March 1834): 511–524
8. Lt. Reynolds. ‘On the Thugs.’ The New Monthly Magazine 38 (1833): 277–287
9. E. Thornton. Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs and Notices of Some of the Proceedings of the Government of India for the Suppression of the Crime of Thuggee. London: W.H. Allen, 1837
10. ‘The Thugs; or, Secret Murderers of India’, Review of Ramaseeana, by W.H. Sleeman, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal 64 (January 1837): 357–395
11. Review of Ramaseeana, by W.H. Sleeman, The Foreign Quarterly Review 21 (April 1838): 1–32
12. F. Hollick. Murder Made Moral; or, An Account of the Thugs, and Other Secret Murderers of India. Manchester: A. Heywood, 1840
13. Edward P. Eddrup. The Thugs; or, Secret Murderers of India. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1853
14. John William Kaye. The Administration of the East India Company. London: Richard Bentley, 1853. 2nd ed.
15. Selections from the Records of the Government of India (Foreign Department). No XXIV. Calcutta: John Gray, ‘Calcutta Gazette’ Office, 1858
16. Charles Hervey. Report on the Crime of Thuggee by Means of Poisons in British Territory for the Years 1864, 1865, and 1866. Delhi: General Superintendent’s Office Press, 1868
17. E.J. Gunthorpe. Notes on the Criminal Tribes Residing In, or Frequenting the Bombay Presidency, Berar, and the Central Provinces. Bombay: Times of India Steam Press, 1882
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