Imp Book on Criminal Tribes

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Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations x
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Abbreviations xv
Abbreviated Sources xvii
Glossary xix
Introduction 1
Thuggee reassessed 7
Part I
1 Engaging the Colonial ‘Archives of Repression’ 15
2 Thuggee in Pre-Colonial India 25
3 The Discovery of Thuggee, Etawah 1809 33
Crime, law and order in early colonial India 33
James Law and the initial findings 37
Regulations and the Irregular Corps 44
The report of Mr Wright 46
4 Thomas Perry and the First Arrests 50
The trial of Ghulam Hussain 53
Thomas Perry and the Nizamat Adalat 57
The case of Mr Ernst 59
Thuggee and the courts 62
5 N. J. Halhed in Sindouse, October 1812 66
The area of Sindouse 68
Halhed in Sindouse 71
The attack on Halhed’s party 74