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Thuggee

Banditry and the British in Early

Nineteenth-Century India

Kim A. Wagner

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

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Kim A. Wagner

THUGGEE

Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India

Sunil S. Amrith

DECOLONIZING INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

India and Southeast Asia, 1930–65

Tony Ballantyne

ORIENTALISM AND RACE

Aryanism in the British Empire

Robert J. Blyth

THE EMPIRE OF THE RAJ

Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858–1947

Roy Bridges (editor)

IMPERIALISM, DECOLONIZATION AND AFRICA

Studies Presented to John Hargreaves

T. J. Cribb (editor)

IMAGINED COMMONWEALTH

Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English

Michael S. Dodson

ORIENTALISM, EMPIRE AND NATIONAL CULTURE

India, 1770–1880

Ronald Hyam

BRITAIN’S IMPERIAL CENTURY, 1815–1914: A STUDY OF EMPIRE AND

EXPANSION

Third Edition

Robin Jeffrey

POLITICS, WOMEN AND WELL-BEING

How Kerala became a ‘Model’

Gerold Krozewski

MONEY AND THE END OF EMPIRE

British International Economic Policy and the Colonies, 1947–58

Javed Majeed

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL AND POST-NATIONAL IDENTITY

Francine McKenzie

REDEFINING THE BONDS OF COMMONWEALTH 1939–1948

The Politics of Preference

John Singleton and Paul Robertson

ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AUSTRALASIA 1945–1970

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Banditry and the British in Early

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