Thuggee (UK: /θʌˈɡiː/, US: /ˈθʌɡi/) is the name given to the alleged practice of thugs, who supposedly were historical organised cults of professional...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee, an Indian murder cult, in colonial British India. The supporting cast...
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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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name regarding the murderous Thuggee of India. The film takes place in India in 1825. The country is being ravaged by Thuggee, a Kali-worshiping cult also...
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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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Datura metel (section Criminal poison in Thuggee)
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...
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were widely employed in 17th- and 18th-century India, particularly by the Thuggee cult. Practitioners used a yellow silk or cloth scarf called a rumāl. The...
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Fainting game Hanging Long drop Short drop Strangulation in domestic violence Thuggee Ernoehazy, William; Ernoehazy, WS. "Hanging Injuries and Strangulation"...
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deals with the British East India Company's investigation of the cult of Thuggee stranglers in the 1830s. Captain Harry Lewis of the British East India...
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other people away from claiming themselves werewolves too. Members of the Thuggee cult in India may have murdered a million people between 1740 and 1840...
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hire Thug, a member of the former Indian cult Thuggee Thug Behram (ca 1765–1840), leader of the Thuggee cult Bambie Thug, stage name of Bambie Ray Robinson...
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Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., features a resurgent sect of Thuggees as worshippers of Kali who are at war with the British Raj. In the Beatles'...
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reasons. The Thuggee cult that plagued India was devoted to Kali, the goddess of death and destruction. According to some estimates the Thuggees murdered...
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get him back on the bed." That same day Ford filmed his fight with the Thuggee assassin in Indy's suite on Stage 3. "Harrison had to roll backward on...
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come across a Punjabi village whose children have been kidnapped. The Thuggee cult led by Mola Ram (Amrish Puri) has also taken the holy Sankara Stones...
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authors tend to crudely paraphrase Rapoport and the assumed relevance of "Thuggee" to the study of modern terrorism is taken for granted. Yet the significance...
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made few converts. The Raj set out to outlaw sati (widow-burning) and thuggee (ritual banditry) and upgrade the status of women. Schools would be established...
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Pineapple Water for the Fair Lady (section Thuggee)
Efesbi. The second part includes three stories: The Shadow Contemplator, Thuggee and Hotel of good incarnations. The protagonist of the novel, Semion Levitan...
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distress. She also forms a romantic relationship with Indy. Mola Ram: A Thuggee priest who performs rites of human sacrifices. The character is named after...
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the next film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Roach played the Thuggee guard overseer in a mine who fights with Jones before being killed in a...
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people who lived on the lord's land. Also, this rank was used among the thuggees as well, usually the gang leader. Later, it became a rank used in the British...
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certainties. The Thuggee Act of 1836 set the legal precedent for the Criminal Tribes Act 1871. Colonial records characterises thuggees with five qualities--strangulation...
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traditional ranks and positions no longer exist. Similar to the Indian thuggees or the Japanese yakuza, triad members participate in initiation ceremonies...
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