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Bezig met laden... The strangled traveler : colonial imaginings and the Thugs of Indiadoor Martine van Woerkens
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. > Clementin-Ojha Catherine. Martine Van Wœrkens : Le voyageur étranglé. L'Inde des Thugs, le colonialisme et l'imaginaire. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 83, 1996. pp. 391-395. … ; (en ligne), URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/befeo_0336-1519_1996_num_83_1_2442 > Gilles Tarabout. M. Van Woerkens, Le voyageur étranglé. L'Inde des Thugs, le colonialisme et l'imaginaire. In: L'Homme, 1998, tome 38 n°146. pp. 297-299. … ; (en ligne), URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/hom_0439-4216_1998_num_38_146_370485 > Bouillier Véronique. Van Workens (Martine). Le Voyageur étranglé. L'Inde des Thugs, le colonialisme et l'imaginaire. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°96, 1996. pp. 131-132. … ; (en ligne), URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/assr_0335-5985_1996_num_96_1_1049_t1_0131_0000_3 > Bullier Antoine J. Van Woerkens (Martine) : Le voyageur étranglé, l'Inde des Thugs, le colonialisme et l'imaginaire. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 83, n°312, 3e trimestre 1996. pp. 120-121. … ; (en ligne), URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/outre_0300-9513_1996_num_83_312_3476_t1_0120_0000_1 geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of the Thugs and developed a compulsive fascination with tales of their monstrous deeds. Did the Thugs really exist, or did the British invent them as an excuse to seize tighter control of India? Drawing on historical and anthropological accounts, Indian tales and sacred texts, and detailed analyses of the secret Thug language, Martine van Woerkens reveals for the first time the real story of the Thugs. Many different groups of Thugs actually did exist over the centuries, but the monsters the British made of them had much more to do with colonial imaginings of India than with the real Thugs. Tracing these imaginings down to the present, van Woerkens reveals the ongoing roles of the Thugs in fiction and film from Frankenstein to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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She takes you through a history of the thugs, who they were, the thug trials and their end. Then, she also analysed the two main Englishmen who were involved in chasing the thugs and the myths they created. Finally, she explores how thugs are treated in modern literature and cinema. ( )