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Thuggee (UK: / θ ʌ ˈ ɡ iː /, US: / ˈ θ ʌ ɡ i /) is the name given to the alleged practice of thugs, who, supposedly, were historical organised cults of professional robbers and murderers in India.
The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48 in British India under East India Company rule were a series of legal acts that outlawed thugee—a practice in North and Central India involving robbery and ritualized murder and mutilation on highways—and dacoity, a form of banditry prevalent in the same region, and prescribed punishment ...
The Thuggee and Dacoity Department, also called Thagi and Dakaiti Department, was an organ of the East India Company, [1] and inherited by British India, which was established in 1830 [2] with the mission of addressing dacoity (banditry), highway robbery, and particularly the Thuggee cult of robbers.
Thug Behram (c. 1765 – 1840), also known as Buhram Jamedar and the King of the Thugs, was a leader of the Thuggee cult active in Awadh in central India during the late 18th and early 19th century, and is often cited as one of the world's most prolific serial killers.
Sleeman is featured in the novel The Strangler Vine by Miranda Carter (2015), Firingi Thuggee (2015) by Himadri Kishore Dasgupta and Ebong Inquisition (2020) by Avik Sarkar. Sleeman features in the novel The Tigress of Mysore (2022) by Allan Mallinson. Sleeman is the main antagonist in the 2016 video game Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India.
The East India Company established the Thuggee and Dacoity Department in 1830, and the Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 were enacted in British India under East India Company rule. [2] Areas with ravines or forests, such as Chambal and Chilapata Forests, were once known for dacoits. Daku (Dacoit) written in Samrup Rachna ...
The Deceivers portrays the thuggee cult and corruption during Company rule in India.Historically, the East India Company was the world's first joint-stock company — chartered by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1601.
Confessions of a Thug is an English novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor in 1839 based on the Thuggee cult in India. [1] [2] It was a best-seller in 19th-century Britain, becoming the British Empire's most sensational ethnographic fiction in the first half of the 19th century; its avid readers included Queen Victoria. [3]