Excavating histories of terror: thugs, sovereignty and the colonial sublime

Tickell, Alex (2010). Excavating histories of terror: thugs, sovereignty and the colonial sublime. In: Boehmer, Elleke and Morton, Stephen eds. Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 177–201.

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Abstract

Reviewing recent historical scholarship on the colonial anti-thuggee campaign in India during the 1830s this paper contests assessments of the the origins of modern terrorism provided in some Terrorism Studies publications.

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• Item ORO ID
• 28768
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-4051-9154-6, 978-1-4051-9154-8
• Keywords
• terrorism, colonialism, thuggee, Terrorism Studies, India, Sleeman
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial matter and organization, © 2010 Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton
• Depositing User
• Alex Tickell