Thing about thugs / Tabish Khair.

By:

Khair, Tabish

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Fourth Estate, 2010.Description: 244 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9788172239787 (hb)

Other title:

The thing about thugs

Subject(s):

Indic fiction (English)

Genre/Form:

Indic fiction (English)

DDC classification:

823.92 KHA

Summary: A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man's misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London's underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	Meenakshi Mukherjee Books	823.92 KHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K4982

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Novel.

A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man's misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London's underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally.

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