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This 7 page paper discusses Martine van Woerkens' book about the Thuggee cult of India. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Traveler by Martine van Woerkens, which explores Thuggee and the reasons the author posits for the British decision to exterminate it. Thuggee Thuggee cultists operated throughout India from the 13th
to 19th centuries; they were religious stranglers who worshipped Kali, Goddess of Death. (Thuggee). The cult was largely hereditary and confined to the male side of the family,
with sons being indoctrinated by their fathers while the women of the house remained ignorant of cult activity (Thuggee). Thugs were well-organized and roamed throughout India in gangs
of 10 to 200 individuals; they operated by gaining the confidence of wealthy travelers and then strangling them when they were off-guard (Thuggee). The Thugs would then rob the
victim and bury him according to "ancient and rigidly prescribed forms and after the performance of special religious rites" (Thuggee). Their murders were religious duties for them and assassination
was an honorable profession; morality didnt enter into the picture at all (Thuggee). Thugs learned Kalis will "through a very complicated system of omens," and having once received
a message, they sometimes followed their victims hundreds of miles before finding a safe place to murder them; once they did, they gave a large part of the spoils to
the goddess (Thuggee). The British made a determined (and successful) effort to stamp out Thuggee beginning in the early 1800s. One of the frightening things about the Thugs
was that they could be anyone; "they were after all very ordinary people, mostly poor, not very different from the rest of the community" (Prabhakara, 2003). It is even
possible that several lesser Thugs served under a "Master Thug" who employed them to perform the customary rites, much as any employer would (Prabhakara, 2003). One of the most
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