Philip Meadows Taylor was a British officer and administrator in the Hyderabad state, and later British India. He was also a novelist, best known for his 1839 bestseller Confessions of a Thug, and an amateur archaeologist. After Confessions of a Thug, Taylor wrote a series of historical romance novels set against the backdrop of important events in Indian history.
- Occupation
- writer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- September 25, 1808
- Died
- May 13, 1876, 1876
