his new edition is based on the original 3-volume first edition from 1839 published by Oxford University Press, which is now extremely rare One of the most important novels of British India, and comparable to Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901) and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924) Two original sources carefully transcribed as appendices further explore the Thuggee Introduction, comprehensive annotation, select bibliography and chronology of the author