Stranglers and bandits: a historical anthology of Thuggee / edited by Kim A Wagner - New Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009. - xvi, 318 p.

Section I: Thuggee in Pre-colonial India--
1: India--
2: Indigenous References--
3: Early European Accounts--
Section II: The Discovery of Thuggee--
4: The First British Accounts--
5: Early Measures--
6: Confusion of Terminology: Report of J.W. Laing, --
3 April 1810. Complaint of T.H. Ernst,--
12 May 1810. Despatch from the Board of Directors, East India Company, 1820--
7: The First Thug Trials--
8: Thuggee in Sindouse--
9: ThePhansigars of Southern India--
10: Commencement of Operations--
11: The Anti-thuggee Campaign--
12: The Nineteenth Century--
13: The Twentieth Century--
14: History and the Representation of Thuggee

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