Much of this chapter is taken up by the transcripts of a murder trial. The behaviour of the guilty parties is characterized as like Thugees, although that term does not appear in the transcripts. The photograph displayed on this page is from https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/11/18/245953619/what-a-thugs-life-looked-like-in-nineteenth-century-india
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