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Thuggee (UK: /θʌˈɡiː/, US: /ˈθʌɡi/) was a
network of
organized crime in
British Raj
India in the 19th
century of
gangs that
traversed the
Indian subcontinent...
- work from the 1830s in
suppressing the
organized criminal gangs known as
Thuggee. He also
discovered the
holotype specimen of the
sauropod dinosaur Titanosaurus...
- 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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desperate villagers to find a
mystical stone and
rescue their children from a
Thuggee cult to all
appearances practicing child slavery,
black magic, and ritual...
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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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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...
- 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...
- bandits. The East
India Company established the
Thuggee and
Dacoity Department in 1830, and the
Thuggee and
Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 were enacted...
- The
Deceivers is a 1952
novel by John
Masters on the
Thuggee movement in
India during the
period of
British rule
during the 19th century. It was his second...
