Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman (8 August 1788 – 10 February 1856) was a British soldier and administrator in British India. He is best known for his work from the 1830s in suppressing the organized criminal gangs known as Thuggee. He also discovered the holotype specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Titanosaurus indicus in Jabalpur in 1828. The first outbreak of lathyrism in India in 1844 was reported by him. (From Wikipedia) More about W. H. Sleeman:
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Books by W. H. Sleeman: Additional books by W. H. Sleeman in the extended shelves: Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II (Gutenberg ebook) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official (J. Hatchard, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official (Oxford University Press, 1973), also by Vincent Arthur Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. (A. Constable and Company, 1893), also by Vincent Arthur Smith and Vincent A. Smith (page images at HathiTrust) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official (Oxford Univ. Press, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. (H. Milford, 1915), also by Vincent A. Smith (page images at HathiTrust) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official (Gutenberg ebook) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Report on Budhuk alias Bagree decoits (J. C. Sherriff, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Report on the depredations committed by the thug gangs of upper and central India, from the cold season of 1836-37, down to their gradual suppression, under the operation of the measures adopted against them by the supreme government, in the year 1839. (O.H. Huttmann, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: 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, and of the measures which have been adopted by the supreme government of India for its suppression. (Carey & Hart, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust) Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856: Vocabulary of the peculiar language used by the Thugs (G. H. Huttmann, Military Orphan Press, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
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