The Thugs are the devotees of Goddess kali. KALI is that God whose tongue forever lolls in unquenchable thirst for human blood. Thuggee is an ancient secret and hereditary brotherhood. It was prevalent almost all over India. Thugs worked in gangs.
The victims of the Thugs, as a rule, were people travelling on the main roads from one city to another. These travelers are unknown to Thugs. Thugs strangled them with a peculiar set technique which was swift and noiseless. Once they killed their prey, the Thugs would rob them, after robbing them they would be buried. Their burial method was very professional and traceless, detection was practically unknown. The travellers simply go mining, wiped out from the face of earth.
Hindus of all castes – high or low – were Thugs by inheritance. Highly placed people in the society professionals and rich belonged to Thugs or were connected with them. These people were profited by the robbed cash & Jewelry and strange exhilaration spiced with fear.
All this was done by the Thugs for goddess Kali’s solace and her benevolence.
Lord William Cavendish Bentinck undertook the suppression of this monstrous practice in 1830s. He was supported by an able officer sir William Sleeman between 1831-1837. Till that time thousands of travelers on India’s main traffic roads were butchered each year in goddess Kali’s honor.
Thugee was in existence from pre-historic times, rested upon strong religious roots and popular generation/acceptance. In India, for the Hindus, centuries are not long enough for such root age. The issuance of any law against this practice merely serves to drive it to deeper and wider underground spread, covered with new form of leafage.
Today no one is killed by Thugs on India’s main arteries of traffic, because these acts visible on CC cameras and many attract the police. But thousands of people go ‘missing’ each year’; ‘accidents’ happen and the goddess Kali’s is ecstatically worshipped by people, politicians and the Press.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional.
What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
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