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Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2057-9
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176 pages
April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Placing Criminals, Displacing Thuggee: Historical Representation, "Fact," and Stereotype, c. 1830–2005.

2. How to Make a Thug: Recipes for Producing Crime, 1830–1910.

3. Discipline, Labor, Salvation: Repression, Reform, and the Thuggee Precedent.

4. Acting Like a Thief: From Aesthetics of Survival to the Politics of Liberation.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

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