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Definition of Thuggees

Thuggee
Thuggee Thug*gee", n. [Hind. ?hag[=i].] The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. ``One of the suppressors of Thuggee.' --J. D. Hooker.

Meaning of Thuggees from wikipedia

- the Thuggee cult, revolving around a fictional Thug who is named Ameer Ali. The novel po****rized the word "thug" in the English language. Thuggees, including...
- 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...
- which Thuggees are the overarching antagonists. Sleeman is featured in the novel The Strangler Vine by Miranda Carter (2015), Firingi Thuggee (2015)...
- fellow Thuggee, and in order to avoid being exposed, Savage kills him. Savage also discovers that senior British officers know about the Thuggees' activities...
- 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...
- goddess of fertility Kali—(Hindu) daughter of Shiva, high priestess of the Thuggees Lilith—Hebrew female devil, Adam's first wife who taught him the ropes...
- The Thuggee and Dacoity Department, also called Thagi and Dakaiti Department, was an organ of the East India Company, and inherited by British India,...
- 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...
- be a problem. But because of the voodoo element with Mola Ram and the Thuggees, the Indian government was a little bit hesitant to give us permission...
- 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...