Who were they?
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: ‘Thuggee’, 3 December 2009
Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of ‘Thuggee’
edited by Kim Wagner.
Oxford, 318 pp., £22.99, January 2009,978 0 19 569815 2 Show More
edited by Kim Wagner.
Oxford, 318 pp., £22.99, January 2009,
“... modern category, the national chartered trading company, with counterparts in the Netherlands, France and Denmark, but the Crown also gave it the legal right to sign treaties and wage ‘defensive’ wars, as well as build fortified settlements. Over the second half of the 18th century, the Company created a sizeable territorial state, first in eastern and ... ”