Confessions of a Thug: Philip Meadows Taylor
Confessions of a Thug is an English novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor in 1839 based on the Thuggee cult in British India.12 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.
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