Thuggee (UK: /θʌˈɡiː/, US: /ˈθʌɡi/) is the name given to the practice of thugs, who were historical organised gangs of professional robbers and murderers...
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William Henry Sleeman (section Thuggee suppression)
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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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...
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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...
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Thagi and Dakaiti Department (redirect from Thuggee and Dacoity Department)
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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Dacoity (section Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Act)
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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Thuggee: Banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India (2007), is a book authored by Kim A. Wagner and published by Palgrave Macmillan, which...
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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...
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Organised crime in India (section Thuggee)
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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Kim A. Wagner (section Thuggee)
starting with Thuggee: Banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India in 2007. He followed that up with a source book on Thuggee and has also...
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