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Thugs and Dacoits: Volume VI: The Imperial Archives-From Discovery to the Civilisational Mission: English Writings on India

Thugs and Dacoits: Volume VI: The Imperial Archives-From Discovery to the Civilisational Mission: English Writings on India

Nayar, Pramod K.

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General World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 9394701915
ISBN13: 9789394701915
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 26 2023
Pages: 512
Language: English

The volumes focus on select aspects of the British imperial archives: the accounts of discovery and exploration - fauna and flora, geography, climate - the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes - including the Mutiny of 1857-58 - and the civilisational mission.

This volume documents how the practice of thuggee was viewed by the British before: as if it symbolized everything that was wrong with the social order in India.

The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration.

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