The latter novels portray Rocambole as a fearless hero fighting a variety of dastardly villains such as the Thuggee, etc . He has become a veritable mastermind who has been to India and has gathered around him a coterie of equally talented assistants.
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Moreover, India posed a unique problem to the colonialists as the demarcation between wandering criminal tribes ( such as Thuggees ), hijras ), grouped together, and their subsequent generations were merely a " law and order problem " for the state.
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And that the expression " Murder by Thuggee, " when used in such Acts, shall be taken to have meant and to mean Murder, when employed as the means of committing such Child-stealing, or such Robbery by a Thug.
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The Thugs, its membership said to number 10, 000 at its peak, practiced their predatory system of Thuggee for at least six centuries, killing more than a half-million people, making them history's longest-lasting terror group.
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""'The Stranglers of Bombay " "'is a 1959 adventure / horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Films dealing with the British East India Company's investigation of the cult of Thuggee stranglers in the 1830s.
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"In recent years, the revisionist view that Thuggee was a British invention, a means to tighten their hold in the country, has been given credence in India, France and the US, but this well-researched book objectively questions that assertion ."
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"The Deceivers " ( 1988 ) _ Pierce Brosnan plays William Sleeman, the British officer who stamped out the infamous thuggee cult ( ritual murderers who strangled travelers to appease the goddess Kali ) in this exciting, underrated Nicholas Meyer-directed historical adventure.
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The British when they did take over the region did not allow the Gujjars to join the military or civil service citing them as unreliable, unfit and associated very strongly to the criminal and mercenary Thuggee gangs, going so far as to criminalise them with the introduction of Criminal Tribes Act of 1871.
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He notes that there are several other references in the early Pli canon that seem to indicate the presence of devotees of Siva, Kali, and other divinities associated with sanguinary tantric practices, and that Angulimala's behaviour would not be inconsistent with certain violent practices that were observed in India by Thuggee-like transgressive cults into recent times.
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The " Indiana Jones " trilogy : In " Raiders of the Lost Ark " ( 1981 ), Indy thwarts the Nazis from getting ultimate power; in " Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom " ( 1984 ), he battles a cruel secret Thuggee cult; and in " Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade " ( 1989 ), he's back battling the Nazis again.
