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1839 novel by Philip Meadows Taylor

Confessions of a Thug is an English novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor in 1839 based on the Thuggee cult in India.^[1][2] It was a best-seller in 19th-century Britain, becoming the British Empire's most sensational ethnographic fiction in the first half of the 19th century; its avid readers included Queen Victoria.^[3] It was one of the best-selling crime novels of the 19th century, and was the most influential novel about India prior to Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901).^[4] The novel's popularity established the word "thug" in the English language.^[5]

Plot

The plot revolves around a fictional anti-heroprotagonist, Ameer Ali, a Muslim thug.^[6] This book is a tale of crime and retribution in India, beginning in the late 18th century and ending in 1832.

The story lays bare the practices of the Thugs, or "deceivers" as they were called, who murdered t