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Thugs (Indic criminal group)

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    The Thugs or Phansigars of India: comprising a history of the rise and progress of that extraordinary fraternity of assassins. And a description of the system which it pursues, and of the measures which have been adopted by the supreme government of India for its suppression / compiled from original and authentic documents published by Captain W.H. Sleeman.

    Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856. | Date: 1839
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    Confessions of a thug / By Captain Meadows Taylor.

    Taylor, Meadows, 1808-1876. | Date: 1839
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    Ramaseeana, or A vocabulary of the peculiar language used by the Thugs / with an introduction and appendix, descriptive of the system pursued by that fraternity and of the measures which have been adopted by the supreme government of India for its suppression.

    Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856. | Date: 1836
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    The stranglers : the cult of Thuggee and its overthrow in British India / George Bruce.

    Bruce, George, 1910- | Date: 1969
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    Report on the depredations committed by the Thug gangs of upper and central India, from the cold season of 1836-37, down to their gradual suppression, under the operation of the measures adopted against them by the supreme government, in the year 1839 / [Sir W.H. Sleeman].

    Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856. | Date: 1840
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