About the Book: The Thug Of Hindustan
Adopted and raised by a thug, Ameer Ali committed around 719 murders in his
lifetime just by the use of a roomal, strangling his prey with his grip, thus
preventing any noise from being heard. Philip Meadows Taylors Confessions of a
Thug (1839) is the most influential novel about India and was one of the
best-selling crime novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a
confession to a white sahib the imprisoned Ameer Ali recounts his life as a
devoted follower of Thuggee, a secret religious cult practicing ritual mass
murder and robbery. Introducing a new standard