Thuggee (UK: / θ ʌ ˈ ɡ iː /, US: / ˈ θ ʌ ɡ i /) is the name given to alleged thugs, who, supposedly, were historical organised cults of professional robbers and murderers in India. They were said to have travelled in groups across the Indian subcontinent .

2022年7月16日 · According to the Guinness Book of Records, Behram the Indian Thug, holds the record as the most prolific murderer. As the leader of a Thuggee cult in Oudh district, modern-day Uttar Pradesh in India, at his trial in it was established that, between 1790 and 1840, he had strangled at least 931 victims.

On the first day of March 1910, Gaffney saw on a street-seller's cart a strange three-foot long length of woven silk rope which he recognised as a "thuggee cord", used by the Hindu assassins' sect in the Middle East to dispatch their victims.

2023年10月30日 · In the annals of India’s history, this shadowy criminal cult known as the Thuggees cast a long and sinister presence. For centuries, these secretive criminals roamed the highways of Northern and Central India, leaving a trail of terror and treachery.

In the 1830s this Indian secret society strangled upward of 30,000 native people and travelers as a sacrifice to their goddess Kali, the "Dark Mother," the Hindu Triple Goddess of creation, preservation, and destruction. The name Thuggee comes from the Sanskrit sthaga, "deceiver."

'Thuggee, the supposed ritual murder of travellers on India's roads in the early-nineteenth century, has been a source of contention ever since among colonial officials, nationalists and postcolonial theorists. Kim Wagner has finally cracked the problem, providing the most detailed and convincing analysis yet of its origin and nature.'

On the first day of March 1910, Gaffney saw on a street-seller's cart a strange three-foot length of woven silk rope which he recognised as a 'thuggee cord', used by the Hindu assassins' sect in...

Parama Roy deals with thuggee in the context of colonial identities and the issue of mimicry and 'going native' and is thus interested in the wider discursive themes of the subject. Amal Chatterjee on the other hand is focussing on the British representation of thuggee and subjects it to a critical examination along with such other fixtures of

2024年3月7日 · The Thuggee cult, once a pervasive and menacing force in India, was effectively dismantled by the British East India Company in the 19th century. The systematic campaign led by William Henry Sleeman marked the end of centuries of ritualistic robbery and murder, bringing a sense of relief to the people of India.

2023年5月29日 · The crimes of the Thuggee became well-known after English authorities in India undertook the task of wiping them out, when the world learned that they were not just bands of highway robbers, but actually a murderous sect that put to death every person they robbed, leaving none behind to witness against them, not even women or children.