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	Thuggee
		The time is right to put Thuggee methods of disrupting the information-gathering process into practice; an explosive, unstoppable amount of friction in the machine and deliberate confusion of information flow is an effective tactic.
		The Thuggee had their female counterparts in a secret sect of Tantrists who held that it was only by a constant indulgence in passion that a human could ever achieve total union with Kali.
		Thuggee was suppressed in the 1830s, due to the efforts of Captain William Sleeman of the 1st Regiment of Native Infantry, Bengal Army.
	www.lycos.com /info/thuggee.html (659 words)

	Thuggee
		Thuggee was an Indian cult worshipping Kali whose members were known as Thugs.
		A police organisation known as the Thuggee and Dacoity Department was established within the Government of India and remained in existence until 1904 when it was replaced by the Central Criminal Intelligence Department.
		The story of Thuggee was popularised by books such as Philip Meadows Taylor's novel Confessions of a Thug, 1839, leading to the word "thug" entering the English language.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thuggee.html (158 words)

	Thug Or A Million Murders by Colonel James L. Sleeman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Up to this time Thuggee had been regarded by those in authority, on the occasions when it came to light, as something in the nature of Dacoity, or a haphazard assembly of criminals for the purpose of murder and robbery.
		Thuggee was a hereditary profession, the sons of Thugs being taught their craft by skilled leaders who led them by easy stages to the point of murder, so that they came to look on Thuggee not only as a legitimate means of profit but also as a pleasant pastime.
		His connection with Thuggee was therefore of but short duration, indeed his name does not appear in the principal reports of the Thuggee Department.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /horror/003/107.htm (2887 words)

	The Thuggee
		According to Thuggee beliefs, the goddess Kali taught the fathers of thuggery to strangle with a noose and to kill without permitting the flow of blood.
		All victims of the Thuggee were sacrificed to Kali, and the members of the secret society would have been greatly incensed by an accusation that they killed only for booty.
		Without exception, the Thuggee condemned to be hanged went to their own deaths with the same lack of emotion with which they had murdered their victims.
	www.unexplainedstuff.com /Secret-Societies/The-Thuggee.html (1263 words)

	Indiana Jones: Marshall College \| Ram, Mola (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thuggee cultists were known to prowl the dark underbrush, kidnapping victims for their foul sacrifices.
		The British eradicated the Thuggee menace in the early 1800s, and thought the bloodthirsty cult to be extinct.
		So he sent his Thuggee followers as far away as he could, instructing them to only capture non-white travelers, and not to return to the area where travelers were captured.
	www.indianajones.com /marshall/character/molaram (949 words)

	The Cult of Thuggee (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many of the devotional practices and philosophies of the Thuggee can oftentimes be viewed as an extension of dharma, a pillar of Hinduism that comprises “the privileges, duties, and obligations of a man” (Klostermaier 50).
		The Thuggee were doing their dharma in devotedly carrying out the divine will of Kali, just as Krishna wants Arjuna to heed his advice by courageously going into battle.
		From a Thuggee perspective, Krishna's interaction with Arjuna could be seen as somewhat of an equivalent to Kali's original instructions as well as her constant communication with them through omens.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~cgiacolo/dharma.htm (457 words)

	The Arcane Archive - Thugee is Kali worship
		In 1826 Sleeman was given a wider commission, and in 1830 he was given the task of eliminating Thuggee in all central India.
		Thuggee prospered for hundreds of years: their beliefs were an odd amalgam of hindu and moslem, and the ritual use of noose and pickaxe, together with the mass-like ceremonies that preceded murder, are most unusual, that is no reason to dismiss them as debased.
		The thuggee myth asserts that Kali grew tired, and made two men from the sweat on her arms.
	www.arcane-archive.org /religion/hinduism/thugee-is-kali-worship-1.php (1147 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Origins of the word 'thug'
		In the 19th century Thugs were strangling 40,000 people a year but by then many cases of Thuggee were straightforward robbery with no religious significance.
		The Thug cult was extinct by 1890, but the concept of 'criminal tribes' and 'criminal castes' is still in use in India.
		It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/hinduism/history/thugs.shtml (519 words)

	TheRaider.net - Articles
		Cutter's superior tells him of the Thuggee cult and their apparent resurgence, even though they were taken care of previously by the British army some years before.
		Cutter and his friends are also taken by the Thuggee and tortured, though not to join the cult, but to divulge the location of the British Army.
		In Gunga Din, the Thuggee try to use the rope bridge to escape the approaching British Army, but the British soldiers cut the bridge while many of the Thuggee are on it, and they plunge to their deaths, much like the Thuggee in Temple of Doom.
	www.theraider.net /features/articles/gunga_doom.php (2751 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
		Using the confessions of Ameer Ali, a notorious leader of thugs who came into contact with the author in 1832, the reader is carried along the tracts and pathways of India of the time when thuggee was practised in as organised and widespread a manner as the Mafia in the later world.
		As a youngster he is inducted into thuggee with elaborate ceremony, among propitious omens for his success in his work.
		Just how organised the thugs were is revealed by a description of the various sections within the whole— the sothaees, or the inveiglers, whose job it was to entice travellers into the power of the thugs; the lughaees, or the grave-diggers; and the bhuttotes, the actual murderers.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020324/spectrum/book5.htm (676 words)

	Thuggee: Mola Ram
		He speaks of the Thuggee casting down the gods of other religions and turning the world to the Thuggee cult.
		In 1933, Indiana Jones and Marya Smirnova confronted the fellowship of a resurrected Thuggee temple in Bhubaneshwar.
		According to the (excellent) novelization of the movie, when Indy is under the Thuggee spell, he believes that there is a fl snake coiled in his chest.
	www.lycos.com /info/thuggee--mola-ram.html (248 words)

	Thuggee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The practice of thuggee was categorically stamped out by the British by the early 19th century.
		According to 19th century writings about thuggee, the will of the goddess by whose command and in whose honor they followed their calling was revealed to them through a very complicated system of omens.
		The Thuggee cult was suppressed by the British rulers of India in the 1830s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thuggee (2393 words)

	FORAY The Secrets of India
		Thuggee: The name comes from the Sanskrit word sthaga which means deceiver.
		The Thuggee were a Hindu sect whose members worked in small gangs in India.
		The Thuggee cult was suppressed in the 1830's.
	www.conradhubbard.com /foray/india.html (1139 words)

	Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
		Since the fourteenth century, dacoits held a position of prominence in rural Indian life, the most powerful of which became local warlords, making money through ransoms and robberies, and by protecting members of their own castes against wandering bandits and rival dacoit.
		The Thuggee is a weak Indian mercenary unit that has a good ranged attack.
		The thuggee were a cult of Indian robbers and murderers operating primarily between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
	www.ageofempires3.com /asiandynasties/consulates.html (756 words)

	Thuggee >> Palgrave.com : Title Page
		Based largely on new material, this book constitutes the first in-depth examination of thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context.
		Thuggee was not an essence or a caste-like phenomonon, but a means of obtaining a livelihood reverted to by all strata of Indian society in certain areas.
		As such it constituted a highly institutionalized practice related to issues of patronage and retainership, identity and legitimacy, and it was defined by the appropriation of high status rituals and the martial ethos.
	www.palgrave.com /products/title.aspx?PID=280284 (344 words)

	Chapati Mystery » Thuggee Law
		The lore of Thuggees is an illuminating study in the transitional state from the Company to the Raj.
		The body of knowledge compiled to demystify the thuggee (the past, the ritual, the omens) were used to outline a “system”, a comprehensive “menace”.
		Largely speaking, it is safe to say that the thuggee and dacoit campaigns were the essential steps in a centralized police bureaucracy that emerges after the 1857 Mutiny.
	www.chapatimystery.com /archives/imperial_watch/thuggee_law.html (1218 words)

	SSRN-Crime, Governance and the Company Raj. The Discovery of Thuggee by Mark Brown
		They were, he asserted, `villains as subtle, rapacious, and cruel, as any who are to be met in the records of human depravity`.
		This paper examines the history of the thuggee phenomenon, situating it in the context of British colonial expansion into the subcontinent.
		It is argued that both the `discovery` of thuggee and its eventual demise in the face of competing images of native criminality flowed from the impact upon native society of expanding British authority and the needs of governance to know, categorize and subdue the Indian subject.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=905368 (256 words)

	thuggee - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Thuggee (or tuggee, ठग्गी) (from Hindi thag ‘thief’, from Sanskrit sthaga ‘scoundrel’, from sthagati ‘to conceal’) was an Indian network of secret...
		No organized cult of killers has ever murdered as many people as the Thuggee.
		The Thuggee cult was a secret religious society centered in India.
	encarta.msn.com /thuggee.html (130 words)

	THUGS Articles Thuggee (or tuggee, ?????) (from Hi
		Thuggee groups practiced large-scale robbery and murder of travellers.
		Their modus operandi was to befriend unsuspecting travellers and win their trust; when the travellers allowed the thugs to join and walk with them (sometimes for hundreds of miles), the group of thugs killed them at a suitable place and time before robbing them.
		Thuggee groups consisted of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims though their patron was the Hindu Goddess Kali whom they often called Bhowanee.
	www.amazines.com /Thugs_related.html (1654 words)

	The Cult of Thuggee (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cult of Thuggee, after flourishing for some five centuries and strangling some one million travelers (Sleeman), are believed to have been eradicated in the mid 1800s after the efforts Captain William Sleeman and the British Thuggee and Dakaiti Department.
		Whether their extinction was the result of Sleeman's efforts, the Westernization of India, carelessness on the part of the Thugs, or the will of Kali, no one can know for sure.
		Even though they prospered for so long, there are remarkably few first-hand accounts of the intricacies of the Thuggee, how they evolved over the centuries, or how and when they were actually started.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~cgiacolo/index.htm (316 words)

	kali ma, vista por hollywood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For example, William Schoebelen in "Wicca, Satan's Little White Lie,"1 makes much of the Thuggee and even refers to "Indiana Jones." He uses the propaganda of that movie as "proof" that Wicca (and all Goddess worship) is evil.
		The real Thugs were highwaymen, outlaws, who depended upon he predominance of food travel for their success in finding "victims." The advent of the railways in the 1800s seriously cramped their style, all but eliminating their power.
		It would seem that the Thuggee were actually engaged in a class war- or even an anti-imperialist war on class and national enemies.
	www.kaliman.com.mx /kal_17.html (1919 words)

	Damn Interesting » The Thugs of India
		Thuggee membership was for life, all the way up to the elderly Thugs who still did what they could for the group as cooks or spies—yet the wives and daughters of these men might never know the truth about the male members of their family.
		Thuggee was thus unable to retaliate against its English persecutors even when it had the opportunity.
		Some suspect that Thuggee prisoners even deliberately accused innocent men; unable to strangle in person during their incarceration, sending men to the gallows was a convenient way of keeping up their obligation to Kali.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=873 (9648 words)

	Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Thuggee
		It permitted the arrest of entire families, including women and children, as legitimate means of entrapping active (male) thugs; since thuggee was supposed to be a family affair anyway, transmitted in the genes and passed on from father to son, wives and children were also fit targets for the colonial state’s punitive and corrective measures.
		Wagner wants to reclaim thuggees from the dustbin of history, arguing that “travellers were strangled and plundered by bands of robbers in early 19th century India if not earlier.” And while he makes some important correctives to the revisionist accounts, I think he misses the point being made by Roy and others.
		Namely, I believe he is wrong to present the “Thuggee as a distinct form of crime,” and I think this view comes from his placing too much reliance on the Sleeman archive and the testimony of convicts in an enormously unfair system.
	savageminds.org /2007/12/22/thuggee (3659 words)

	Thuggee@Everything2.com
		Ironically enough, thugs were otherwise upstanding members of society, and they were fastidious about burying their victims, which lent to the mystique.
		Between the British Raj's efforts to eliminate them, and the advent of railroads cutting back on the number of foot travelers to waylay, the Thuggee were supressed, and are believed to be defunct.
		Thugee (pronounced "tug-ee" and taken from the Hindi verb "thaglana" which meant "to deceive") was a mysterious and religious cult based in India with followers who regarded the murder of people as a legitimate sport and a very important part of their common faith.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=Thuggee (660 words)

	Sultan Knish From NY to IsraelThe Sultan Reveals the Story Behind the Story
		Thuggees are widely stereotyped as being murderous robbers who will strangle you with a handkerchief and rifle your purse at a moment's notice.
		As Thuggees we contribute to whatever society we happen to live in and contrary to the stereotypes of Thuggees as robbers, there is not a single Thuggee serving time for a white collar crime anywhere.
		And now that you've learned a lot more about the Thuggee faith, perhaps your stereotypes have been dispelled and you can realize that we are merely another part of the great mosaic of your nation.
	sultanknish.blogspot.com /2006/10/thuggee-religion-of-peace.html (597 words)

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