Word: britishly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MILLAIS AND THE RUSKINS, by Mary Lutyens. The odd marriage of the Victorian critic and esthete is given an enlightened going-over by a British biographer...
...STRANGLERS, by George Bruce. The original "thugs" were Indian marauders who strangled travelers and robbed them. It wasn't until the 1830s, when their recent victims were numbered in the tens of thousands, that a crusading British officer finally wiped them out. A horrifying, little-known facet of Empire...
...cases than not: death by strangling at the well-muscled hands of murderous religious fanatics called Thugs, who perversely justified their killing in the name of the Hindu goddess Kali but robbed for the immense benefit of themselves. George Bruce, journalist and Orientalist, examines these remarkable evildoers and with British understatement measures their crime and eventual punishment...
...generations the Thugs went almost completely unchecked. The British government, calmly tallying "misadventures," remained totally unconcerned because Thugs killed almost no Europeans. As for the natives themselves, Thugs terrorized the peasants and bribed the rajahs and landowners to ignore them or protect them. Thugs were often of the Brahman caste. When they were arrested, they were almost invariably released for "lack of evidence." It was as if the Thugs (corrupted from thags, Hindustani for "deceivers") had managed to keep a whole country hypnotized...
Unfortunately, as Sylvia, Polly Brooks never quite got into the part. Although she sometimes seemed close, she jarred the mood everytime she spoke. One appreciates the fine enunciation of her slightly British accent, but they just don't talk like that down in the Bronx...