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Thuggee (UK: /θʌˈɡiː/, US: /ˈθʌɡi/) is the name
given to the
alleged practice of thugs, who
supposedly were
historical organised cults of professional...
- The
Thuggee and
Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48 in
British India under East
India Company rule were a
series of
legal acts that
outlawed thugee—a practice...
- The
Thuggee and
Dacoity Department, also
called Thagi and
Dakaiti Department, was an
organ of the East
India Company, and
inherited by
British India,...
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Thuggee:
Banditry and the
British in
early nineteenth-century
India (2007), is a book aut****d by Kim A.
Wagner and
published by
Palgrave Macmillan, which...
- work from the 1830s in
suppressing the
organized criminal gangs known as
Thuggee. He also
discovered the
holotype specimen of the
sauropod dinosaur Titanosaurus...
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known as
Buhram Jamedar and the King of the Thugs, was a
leader of the
Thuggee cult
active in
Awadh in
central India during the late 18th and
early 19th...
- bandits. The East
India Company established the
Thuggee and
Dacoity Department in 1830, and the
Thuggee and
Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 were enacted...
- bandits. The East
India Company established the
Thuggee and
Dacoity Department in 1830, and the
Thuggee and
Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 were enacted...
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desperate villagers to find a
mystical stone and
rescue their children from a
Thuggee cult
practicing child slavery,
black magic, and
ritual human sacrifice...
- the
goddess Kali,
while modern scholars tend to
perceive the
reality of
Thuggee to have been more a
matter of
criminal activity undertaken for gain by...
