The Thugs or Phansigars of India: comprising a history of the rise and progress of that extraordinary fraternity of assassins. And a description of the system which it pursues, and of the measures which have been adopted by the supreme government of India for its suppression / compiled from original and authentic documents published by Captain W.H. Sleeman.

  • Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856.
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Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1839.

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2 volumes ; (12mo)

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Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction 6379

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Vol. 1 half-title: History of the Thugs or Phansigars of India
"Chiefly compiled from a volume published in Calcutta in 1836, entitled 'Ramaseana, or, A vocabulary of the peculiar language used by the Thugs, with an introduction and appendix ...'"--Pref
"The Ramaseeana, or vocabulary, of the Thug language": v. 2, p. [35]-112

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