The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive
The campaign against thuggee in 1830s India produced a set of widely-circulated accounts of the origins and practices of thugs. In these works (both popular and scholarly), a very small amount of primary information was continually recycled throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chan...
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| description | The campaign against thuggee in 1830s India produced a set of widely-circulated accounts of the origins and practices of thugs. In these works (both popular and scholarly), a very small amount of primary information was continually recycled throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The changes visible in the manner of deployment of this information are indicative of progressive re-formulations of the narrative of the history of thuggee, and the larger history of British India. This process is examined through a study of the incorporation of an extract from The Travels of M de Thévenot into the Levant into the historical archive, which concludes that any re-appraisal of history must incorporate a consideration of the narrative underlying the production of the records, as well as the records themselves. |
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| spelling | nottingham-19892020-05-04T20:32:49Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1989/ The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive ní Fhlathúin, Máire The campaign against thuggee in 1830s India produced a set of widely-circulated accounts of the origins and practices of thugs. In these works (both popular and scholarly), a very small amount of primary information was continually recycled throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The changes visible in the manner of deployment of this information are indicative of progressive re-formulations of the narrative of the history of thuggee, and the larger history of British India. This process is examined through a study of the incorporation of an extract from The Travels of M de Thévenot into the Levant into the historical archive, which concludes that any re-appraisal of history must incorporate a consideration of the narrative underlying the production of the records, as well as the records themselves. Cambridge University Press 2001 Article NonPeerReviewed ní Fhlathúin, Máire (2001) The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 11 (1). pp. 31-42. ISSN 1356-1863 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5573924 doi:10.1017/S135618630100013X doi:10.1017/S135618630100013X |
| spellingShingle | ní Fhlathúin, Máire The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive |
| title | The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive |
| title_full | The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive |
| title_fullStr | The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive |
| title_full_unstemmed | The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive |
| title_short | The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive |
| title_sort | travels of m. de thévenot through the thug archive |
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