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a Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language used by the Thugs, with an Introduction and Appendix descriptive of the Calcutta system pursued by that fraternity, and of the measures which have been adopted by the Supreme Government of India for its suppression. Calcutta, G. H. Huttmann, Military Orphan Press, 1836. [No author's name on title-page, but most of the articles are signed by W. H. Sleeman.] Appendices A to Z, and A.2, contain correspondence and copious details of particular crimes, pp. 1-515. Total pages (v,+270+515) 790. A very roughly compiled and coarsely printed collection of valuable documents. [A copy in the Bodleian Library and two copies in the British Museum. One copy in India Office Library.] (2a.) Philadelphia 1839, 1 vol. 8vo. The work described as follows in the printed Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum appears to be a pirated edition of _Ramaseeana_: _The Thugs or Phansigars of India: comprising a history of the rise and progress of that extraordinary fraternity of assassins; and a description of the system which it pursues, &c._ Carey and Hart. Philadelphia, 1839. 8vo. A Hindustani MS. in the India Office Library seems to be the original of the vocabulary and is valuable as a guide to the spelling of the words. (3.) (?)1836 or 1837, Pamphlet. On the Admission of Documentary Evidence. _Extract._ [This reprint is an extract from _Ramaseeana_. The rules relating to the admission of evidence in criminal trials are discussed. 24 pages.] (4.) 1837, Pamphlet. Copy of a Letter which appeared in the _Calcutta Courier_ of the 29th March, 1837, under the signature of 'Hirtius', relative to the Intrigues of Jotha Ram. [This letter deals with the intrigues and disturbances in the Jaipur (Jyepoor) State in 1835, and the murder of Mr. Blake, the Assistant to the Resident. (See post, chap, 67, end.) The reprint is a pamphlet of sixteen pages. At the beginning reference is made to a previous letter by the author on the same subject, which had been inserted in the _Calcutta Courier_ in November, 1836.] (5.) Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. vi. (1837), p. 621. _History of the Gurha Mundala Rajas, by Captain W. H. Sleeman._ [An elaborate history of the Gond dynasty of Garha Mandla, 'which is believed to be founded principally on the chronicles of the Bajpai family, who were the hereditary prime ministers of the Gond princes.' (_Central Provinces Gazetteer,_ 1870, p
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