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thuggee
Thuggee or tuggee ((ヒンディー語:Nepali ठग्गी ''ṭhagī''); (ウルドゥー語:ٹھگ); (サンスクリット:''sthaga''); (シンド語: ٺوڳي، ٺڳ); ) refers to the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional assassins.
The Thugs travelled in groups across South Asia for six hundred years.〔"(Tracing India's cult of Thugs )". 3 August 2003. ''Los Angeles Times.''〕 They were first mentioned in Ẓiyā-ud-Dīn Baranī's ''History of Fīrūz Shāh'' dated around 1356.〔http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/594263/thug〕 In the 1830s they were targeted for eradication by William Bentinck, Governor-General of India, and his chief captain William Henry Sleeman. The Thugs were seemingly destroyed by this effort.〔〔http://www.mahavidya.ca/hindu-sects/the-thuggee-cult/〕
The Thugs would join travellers and gain their confidence. This would allow them to then surprise and strangle their victims by pulling a handkerchief or noose tight around their necks. They would then rob their victims of valuables and bury their bodies. This led them to also be called Phansigar ((英語:using a noose)), a term more commonly used in southern India. The term Thuggee is derived from the Hindi word ठग, or , which means "deceiver". Related words are the verb ''thugna'', "to get deceived", from Sanskrit स्थग "uncunning, honest to goodness, unfraudulent", from स्थगति "he unconceals".〔(Thugs ) ''1902 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'.Pali-''sthag''〕 This term for a particular kind of murder and robbery of travellers is popular in South Asia and particularly in India.
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