Suppression of Thugs in British India
Open this record in the interactive library
- Catalogue identifier
- kali-import-98dae919bba33d53c4fe
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-100B10-094
- Author or attribution
- Wheeler, J. Talboys (ed. Jayaram V)
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1886
- Source / repository
- Hinduwebsite.com
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 100-Source Research Supplement — Batch 10, November 2026; Thuggee; Bhowani; Colonial history; Book Chapters
Description and curator notes
Wheeler's colonial history on the Thugs' goddess Durga, Bowani or Kali.
Curator source KALI-100B10-094, from the paired 100-source CSV/spreadsheet.
Metadata and access descriptions below are supplied by the curator export, not a new independent verification by this library. Museum images/records and audio are not represented as complete written texts.
This chapter record covers only the named chapter, not the complete parent book.
Historical, colonial, missionary, polemical and fictional depictions are evidence of their authors' representations, not neutral descriptions of Kali worship or endorsements of violence. Named chapters and translated fiction retain their bounded scope and translation attribution.
#: 94
Title: Suppression of Thugs in British India
Authors: Wheeler, J. Talboys (ed. Jayaram V)
Record type: Book chapter
Language: English
Year: 1886
Source / Publisher: Hinduwebsite.com
Full-text URL: https://hinduwebsite.com/history/suppression-of-thugs-in-British-India.asp
Subjects: Thuggee; Bhowani; Colonial history
Description: Wheeler's colonial history on the Thugs' goddess Durga, Bowani or Kali.
Access: Free full text
Dedupe check (vs. 1,411-record catalogue + batches 1-9, 5 Nov 2026): No URL, title or object-number match (catalogue or batches 1-9)
Source access
Read or locate the original source at Hinduwebsite.com
Rights and reading conditions
Curator-reported source access: Free full text. Free reading, record/image viewing or streaming does not grant republication rights. No source text, audio or collection image is reproduced here; follow the host's specific copyright and licence.
Citation
Wheeler, J. Talboys (ed. Jayaram V). Suppression of Thugs in British India. Hinduwebsite.com. 1886. https://hinduwebsite.com/history/suppression-of-thugs-in-British-India.asp
This page supplies catalogue metadata and links. It does not reproduce the underlying source text. Historical, religious, healing and interpretive claims belong to the cited sources, not to an independent verification by this catalogue.