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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.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DS422.T5 S62 1839 v.1-2
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Fiction.
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 19 cm
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1839.
Notes:
  • "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": v. 2 p. [35]-112.
Cited in:
Checklist Amer. imprints 58545
Contains:
Ramaseeana.
OCLC:
2541062

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