This novel narrates the story of a thug named Ameer Ali, who was very dangerous and his role is played by Aamir Khan. The story narrates that there were some thugs in India who used to make rich travelers their friends and then they used to kill them and rob everything they had and then bury them successfully. The British administration had a lot of problem with this cult because they had almost killed more than 20 lakh people. Britishers tried to capture them and then one day they captured Ameer Ali and made him confess everything, his confessions led to many arrests and by 1870 the thugs had become extinct.
whose gang of ‘thugs’ challenge the East India Company in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Despite the obvious anti-colonial narrative, the origin of the word ‘thug’ (‘thugee’ for plural in British India) which basically means anyone committing mindless violence, is a lot less flattering.
This was the term the British had coined for bandits who would murder and rob unsuspecting travellers after befriending them under false pretences in and around Central India.
It comes from the Sanskrit word ‘thag,’ which means to deceive or trick.
Little surprise that the first known reference to the word ‘thag’ was found in the writings of Indian philosopher in the 10th century. It subsequently appeared in the 12th century Sanskrit texts, and in fact, the famous 16th century Bhakti poet Surdas once wrote (translated into English):
‘As a thag lures a pilgrim with laddus sweet with wine
Make him drunk and trusting takes his money and his life’
Make him drunk and trusting takes his money and his life’
It next made an appearance in the writings of Dr Robert Sherwood titled ‘Of the Murderers called Phansigars’, which was published in 1816 in the Madras Literary Gazette.
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