The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4

by R. V. Russell

List of Paragraphs

• [1. Historical notice]
• [2. Thuggees depicted in the caves of Ellora]
• [3. Origin of the Thugs]
• [4. Methods of assassination]
• [5. Account of certain murders]
• [6. Special incidents (continued)]
• [7. Disguises of the Thugs]
• [8. Secrecy of their operations]
• [9. Support of landholders and villagers]
• [10. Murder of sepoys]
• [11. Callous nature of the Thugs]
• [12. Belief in divine support]
• [13. Theory of Thuggee as a religious sect]
• [14. Worship of Kāli]
• [15. The sacred pickaxe]
• [16. The sacred gur (sugar)]
• [17. Worship of ancestors]
• [18. Fasting]
• [19. Initiation of a novice]
• [20. Prohibition of murder of women]
• [21. Other classes of persons not killed]
• [22. Belief in omens]
• [23. Omens and taboos]
• [24. Nature of the belief in omens]
• [25. Suppression of Thuggee]