Légende

'Thugs in the act of strangling a traveller', 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.

Date

1838

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A14_270

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (4,8Mo) / 41,8cm x 30,0cm / 4935 x 3539 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel people male library man men India Indian country law guy crime headdress color KILLER dead strangler death dying gang turban turbans location century criminal victim travellers traveller concept strangling thug British Library headgear murderer ambush head-dress strangulation head dress Colour 19th century nineteenth century Hindoostan Thuggee Frances Eden Eden Frances Heritage Art 19th-century thugs