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A tiger, a panther, a buffalo, or a hog, rouses your uttermost energies for its destruction—you even risk your lives in its pursuit. How much higher game is a Thug’s! His is man: against his fellow-creatures in every degree, from infancy to old age, he has sworn relentless, unerring destruction!

This was the first report or expose of “Thuggee” a quasi-religious Indian cult that revolved around robbery and murder. The word “thug” came to English from the Hindi word for the member of the cult.

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Philip Meadows Taylor

Born: September 25, 1808
Died: May 13, 1876
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Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor, CSI, an administrator in British India and a novelist, made notable contributions to public knowledge of South India. Though largely self-taught, he was a polymath, working alternately as a judge, engineer, artist, and man of letters.

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