Vetenskaplig Litteratur

Religionshistoria – Magisterkurs, AN, 30 hp Delkurs 2: Metod och teori II, 7,5 hp

Hemliga sällskap, zombies och den (post)koloniala fasan – konstruktioner, dekonstruktioner och rekonstruktioner

Thagerna och Kali – fördjupningslitteratur

1 2 Religionshistoria – Magisterkurs, AN, 30 hp Delkurs 2: Metod och teori II, 7,5 hp

Hemliga sällskap, zombies och den (post)koloniala fasan – konstruktioner, dekonstruktioner och rekonstruktioner

Thagerna och Kali – fördjupningslitteratur

Kolonial litteratur

Se: Wagner, Kim A. (ed.). 2009. Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of Thuggee. Delhi: Oxford University Press. xvi, 318 s.

Andra digitalt tillgängliga skrifter (se främst http://www.archive.org/):

Anonym. 1833. On the Thugs. The New Monthly Magazine 2. S. 14-20.

Anonym. 1834. From the Asiatic Journal. The Thugs of the Doab. The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science 25. S. 308-313.

Anonym. 1838. [Anmälan av Sleeman, William Henry. 1836] Ramaseeana, or A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs. The Foreign Quarterly Review Vol. 21 (April and July , 1838). No. 41 (April 1838). S. 1-18.

Hervey, Charles. 1868. Report on the Crime of Thuggee by Means of Poison in British Territory for the Years 1864, 1865 and 1866. Delhi.

Hutton, James. 1857. A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of India. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co. 173 s.

Reynolds, P.A. 1836. An Account of the Customs and Practices of the Murderers called Thugs. Madras Journal of Literature and Science Vol. 4. No. 12 (July, 1836). S. .85-99.

Sherwood, Richard. 1816. Of the Murderers called Phansigars – se Sleeman 1836. S. 327-362.

Sleeman, William Henry. 1836. Ramaseeana, or A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs, with an Introduction and Appendix, Descriptive of the System Pursued by that Fraternity. 270, 515 s.

Sleeman, William Henry. 1839. The Thugs or Phansigars of India: Comprising a History of the Rise and Progress of that Extraordinary Fraternity of Assassins. Compiled from Original and Authentic Documents published by Captain W. H. Sleeman. [Vol. I.] Philadelphia: Carey & Hart. 227 s,

3 Sleeman, William Henry. 1840. Report on the Depradations committed by the Thug Gangs of Upper and Central India. Calcutta: H. H. Huttmann, Bengal Mily. Orphan Press. 549, xxvi s.

Sleeman, William Henry. 1849. Report on Budhuk alias Bagree Decoits and other Gang Robbers by Hereditary Profession. Calcutta: J. C. Sheriffe, Bengal Military Orphan Press. 433 s.

Sleeman, James L. 1933 (1920). Thug, or A Million Murders London: S. Low, Marston & Co.

Smith. 1832. The Thugs. The Calcutta Magazine 33. S. 469-510.

Thornton, Edward. 1837. Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co. 475 s.

Skönlitteratur

Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug Vol. 1-3 London Richard Bentley, 1839

John Masters, The Deceivers (1952) (svensk övers. Den grymma gudinnan, Stockholm: Bonnier 1953)

Dan Simmons, Song of Kali (1985) (svensk övers. Dödsgudinnans sång, Höganäs: Wiken,1993)

Audrey Blankenhagen, The Curse of Kali: Historical Drama Set in India (2002)

Mark Twain (Samluet L. Clemens), Following the Equator; A Journey Around the World, Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company & Ney York: Doubleday & McClure, 1897 (Svensk övers. En landstrykares anteckningar, Stockholm: Geber, 1898), kap. 43, 44, 46, 47.

Eugène Sue, Le juif errant 1-10, Paris: Paulin, Librairie-Éditeur, 1845 (svensk övers. Den vandrande juden, Stockholm: Läsebibliotheket, 1845)

Joseph Méry. Les Étrangleurs de l'Inde. Publicerad som inledning (s. 3-122) till Constant Guéroult & Paul de Couder, Les Étrangleurs de Paris. Paris: Louis Chappe, 1859.

Louis Boussenard, Les Étrangleurs du Bengale, Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, 1927.

Henri Tessier, Le Roi des Thugs ou led Étratrangleurs de l’Inde, Paris: L. Boulanger, 1889- 90.

Emilio Salgari, Gli strangolatori del Gange (1887, ital.); publicerad i bokform som I misteri della jungla nera (1895; senaste upplaga Milano: Feltrinelli 1998); eng. övers. The Mystery of the Black Jungle, London:Roh Press, 2010. Thuggerna förekommer också i Salgaris Sandokan-trilogi; se Sandokan: The Two Tigers, London: Roh Press, 2010.

4 Francisco Luis Gomes, Os Brahamanes, Lisboa: Typographia da Gazeta de Portugal, 1866 (port.)

Seriealbum

Conrad Didier, Wilbur & Julien Loïs, Raj 1-4 (vol. 4: Les Étrangleurs), Les Éditions Dargaud 2007

Film

Gunga Din (George Stevens, 1939)

Mystery of the Black Jungle (Callegari & Murphy, 1954)

Around the World in 80 Days (Mike Todd, 1956)

Stranglers of Bombay (Terence Fisher, 1960)

Help! (Richard Lester, 1965)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984)

The Deceivers (Nicholas Meyer, 1988)

TV-serier:

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1x17: The Yellow Scarf Affair (1965)

Highlander 4x9: The Wrath of Kali (1995)

Vetenskaplig litteratur:

Badey, Tom. 2010. The Dagger and the Noose: The Historical Lessons of Religious Terrorism. Global Security Studies 1:2. S. 153-170.

Brown, Mark. 2002. Crime, Govenrnance and the Company Raj: The Discovery of Thuggee. British Journal of Criminology 42. S. 77-95.

Chowdhry, Prem. 2002. Villains and Loyalists: Constructing Colonial Concerns in Gunga Din (1939). Indian Historical Review 29. S. 145-197.

Dundas, Paul. 1995. Some Jain References to the Thags and Samsaramocaka. Journal of the American Oriental Society 115:2. S. 281-284

Fhlathúin, Máire Ní. 2001. The Travels of M. De Thévenot through the Thug Archive. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 11,1. S. 31-42.

Gordon, Stewart N. 1969. Scarf and Sword: Thugs, Marauders, and State-formation in 18th Century Malwa. The Indian Economic and Social History Review 6:4. S. 403-429.

Lloyd, Tom. 2007. Liminal ’Criminals’: Re-thinking Historiographies of, and through, the ’Thuggee’Phenomenon. History Compass 5:2. S. 362.374.

Lloyd, Tom. 2008. Thuggee, Marginality and the State Effect in Colonial India, circa 1770- 1840. The Indian Economic and Social History Review 45:2. S. 201-237.

Lloyd, Tom. 2006. Acting in the ”Theatre of Anarchy”: The ’Anti-Thug Campaign’ and Elaborations of Colonial Rule in Early Nine-teenth Century India. Edinburgh Papers in South Asian Studies 19. 50 s.

McDermott, Rachel Fell & Jeffrey J. Kripal (red.). 2003. Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press. (Se särskilt kapitel 7 och 8)

Poovey, Mary. 2004. Ambiguity and Historicism: Interpreting Confessions of a Thug. Narrative 12:1. S. 3-21.

Rapoport, Davis C. 1984. Fear and Trembling: Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions. The American Political Science Review 78:3. S. 658-676.

Reitz, Caroline. 2004. Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imoerial Venture. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. (Se särskilt kapitel 2: Thuggee and the ”Discovery” of the English Detective, s. 22-42)

Rushby, Kevin. 2002. Children of Kali: Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult, and the British Raj. New York; Walker & Co.. 292s.

Singha, Radhika. 1993. ’Providential’ Circumstances: The Thuggee Campaign of the 1830s and Legal Innovation. Modern Asian Studies 27:1. S. 83-146. van Woerkens, Martine. 2002. The Strangled Traveller: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. (Fransk originalupplaga 1995)

Wagner, Kim A. 2007. Thuggee and Social banditry Reconsidered. The Historical Journal 50:2. S. 33553-376.

Wagner, Kim A. 2007. Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. xx, 281 s.

Wagner, Kim A. (ed.). 2009. Stranglers and Bandits: A Historical Anthology of Thuggee. Delhi: Oxford University Press. xvi, 318 s.

Wagner, Kim A. 2010. Confessions of a Skull: Phrenology and Colonial Knowledge in Early Nineteenth-Century India. History Workshop Journal 69. S. 27-51.