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The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive (2001)
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ní Fhlathúin, M. (2001). The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S135618630100013X

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 throughou... Read More about The travels of M. de Thévenot through the thug archive.