A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of India

Download or read book A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of India written by James Hutton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garrotters and Gang-Robbers of India," tells about the criminal India of Victorian times. Thugs were organized gangs of professional robbers and murderers in India, connected to the cult of Kali. Thugs were known to have operated as gangs of highway robbers, tricking and later strangling their victims. Dacoits is another criminal movement that possibly originated because of feudal exploitation as the cause that provoked many people of this region to take to arms. The book offers a reader a lot of interesting information about how those movements originated and acted in colonial India.