Khair, Tabish. <br/><br/>
Thing about thugs / 
 The thing about thugs 
Tabish Khair. 
 - New Delhi :  Fourth Estate,  2010. 
 - 244 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Gratis<br/>Rs.399/- 
<br/><br/>Novel. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788172239787 (hb) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010308952 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indic fiction (English)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Indic fiction (English)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.92 KHA