Report on the depredations committed by the Thug gangs of upper and central India, from the cold season of 1836-37, down to their gradual suppression, under the operation of the measures adopted against them by the supreme government, in the year 1839 / [Sir W.H. Sleeman].

  • Sleeman, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1788-1856.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Report on the depredations committed by the Thug gangs of upper and central India, from the cold season of 1836-37, down to their gradual suppression, under the operation of the measures adopted against them by the supreme government, in the year 1839 / [Sir W.H. Sleeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were apprehended by me. The old hands were recognised by the Approvers, but the persons of the younger men were not known. It appears that this colony had kept themselves entirely distinct, and had not communicated with any of the gangs in their quarters of the South, therefore their proceedings of late years were entirely unknown, and the leader, Madar Khan, trusting to his former pardon, would make no disclosures. One of the old hands, a Mahratta, acknowledged that they still followed their old system, yet nothing could induce him to divulge the history of his later life. The consequence of this was, the release of the younger hands, who are now at large in the Chittoor District, the others, however, have been duly caredTor. I must now return to the North. (Copy.) No. 124. From Captain Malcolm, To Captain P, A. Reynolds, Superintendent, fyc. Sfc. Sir,-—At the period at which I was permanently appoint¬ ed as an Extra Assistant, to aid you in your operations in the Deccan, and which, as you may remember, was in the early part of 1836, the whole of the Districts of the Nizam’s Territories to the North of the Godavery, had, by your exertions, been almost entirely cleared of the gangs of Thugs, which had so long infested the principal roads leading towards Xlindoostan, Jaulnah, Husungabad, and Nagpore; while the seizure of several of the leading Thugs in the vicinity of Hydrabad and Goolburgah had opened sources of information which, there was reason to