'Thugs fixing the attention of a traveller upon something mysterious in the clouds, that he may be strangled unawares', 1838. The cult of Thuggee in India was practiced by devotees of the goddess Kali. They never strangled women. The practice was finally wiped out in the 1830s. From 'Dialogues with Thugs and Narratives of Murderers'.
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'Thugs fixing the attention of a traveller upon something mysterious in the clouds, that he may be strangled unawares', 1838. The cult of Thuggee in India was practiced by devotees of the goddess Kali. They never strangled women. The practice was finally wiped out in the 1830s. From 'Dialogues with Thugs and Narratives of Murderers'.

Date

1838

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM25A14_269

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Droits gérés

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50,0Mo (3,9Mo) / 41,5cm x 30,1cm / 4905 x 3560 (300dpi)

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travel people male library man men India Indian country law pointing guy concentration crime headdress color KILLER strangler gang turban turbans concentrating location century gesturing criminal victim travellers traveller concept distraction preoccupied thug British Library hand gesture headgear murderer ambush distracted head-dress strangulation head dress Colour 19th century nineteenth century Hindoostan Thuggee Frances Eden Eden Frances Heritage Art 19th-century thugs

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