#thugee

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Amrish Puri as the villainous Mola Ram, high priest of Kali, in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

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Thug life before it was cool

Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali ठग्गी ṭhaggī; Urdu: ٹھگ‎; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: ٺوڳي، ٺڳ‎; Kannada: ಠಕ್ಕ thakka) were the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across the Indian sub-continent for six hundred years.[1] ....

To take advantage of their victims, the Thugs would join travellers and gain their confidence; this would allow them to surprise and strangle the travellers with a handkerchief or noose. They would then rob and bury their victims. This led to the Thugs being called Phansigar (English: using a noose), a term more commonly used in southern India.[4] The word "Thuggee" derives from the Hindi ठग (ṭhag), which means "deceiver". Related words are the verb thugna ("to deceive"), from the Sanskrit स्थग (sthaga "cunning, sly, fraudulent") and स्थगति (sthagati, "he conceals").[5] This term, describing the murder and robbery of travellers, is popular in South Asia and particularly India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee

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The Stranglers of Bombay is a 1959 British adventure horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Films dealing with the British East India Company's investigation of the cult of Thuggee stranglers in the 1830s.

‘’Contemporary scholarship is increasingly skeptical of the thuggee concept, and has questioned the existence of such a phenomenon,[7][8] which has led many historians to describe thuggee as the invention of the British colonial regime.[9]’’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee

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Confessions of a thug  1873

https://archive.org/details/confessionsathu00taylgoog/page/n6/mode/2up

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The Thugs or Phansigars of India : comprising a history of the rise and progress of that extraordinary fraternity of assassins, and a description of the system which it pursues and of the measures which have been adopted by the supreme government of India for its suppression VOL.1 1839

https://archive.org/details/thugsorphansiga01sleegoog/page/n8/mode/2up

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The Thugs or Phansigars of India: comprising a history of the rise and progress of that extraordinary fraternity of assassins. And a description of the system which it pursues, and of the measures which have been adopted by the supreme government of India for its suppression VOL.2   1839

https://archive.org/details/thugsorphansiga00sleegoog/page/n6/mode/2up

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A popular account of the thugs and dacoits : the hereditary garotters and gang-robbers of India  1857

https://archive.org/details/popularaccountof00huttiala/page/n5/mode/2up

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Ramaseeana; or, A vocabulary of the peculiar language used by the thugs 1836

https://archive.org/details/ramaseeanaoravo00sleegoog/page/n3/mode/2up