Ameer Ali, a Pathan, is adopted by a Thug named Ismail and becomes a Thug himself. In prison, Ameer Ali confesses his life story as a devoted follower of Thugee, a secret cult that practices ritual murder and robbery, to a British officer. The novel introduced a new standard of ethnographic realism to Western fiction about India and provided vivid and chilling details about the crimes of Thug bands in India in the 1820s based on evidence collected by the novel's author as a police superintendent. It became a bestselling crime novel and influential work about British India in the 19th century.

2. Confession of a Thug (novel)
Philip meadows taylor confession of thug 1839 is the most influential novel about
india and was one of the best selling crime novels of the nineteenth century. In the
course of a confession to a white sahib the imprisoned ameer ali recounts his life as a
devoted follower of thugee a secret religious cult practicing ritual mass muder and
robbery. Taylor uncovered evidence of the crimes commited by bands of thugs as
superintendent of police in india during 1820s. Introducing a new standard of
ethnographic realism to western fiction about India, confession of thug is a strikingly
vivid, chilling about immensely readable thriller. This unique critical edition makes
available a fascinating and significant work of empire writing

3. Characters
• Ameer Ali – The protagonist of the novel, a pathan adopted by a thug and
later himself became a thug
• Ismail – The man who adopted Ameer Ali. He is already a jamadar in thug
cult
• Bhudrinath – He is a religious man and teach Ameer Ali kuran. He is a hindu
thug
• Ganesha – He is a thug in the gand of Ismail

4. • Peer Khan – He is also a thug and a close friend of Ameer Ali, but later he
became a fakir
• Englishman – He is the one who had given us detail about the thug , He had
taken the interview of Ameer Ali
• A Bollywood film is also being made on this novel ‘THUGS OF
HINDOSTAN’

5. SOME PHASES