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India vs Thuggee - What's the difference?

india | thuggee |

As a proper noun India

is the territory east of the Wagah border and south of the Himalaya mountains (formerly also known as Hindustani Empire.

As a noun Thuggee is

a thug (member of band of assassins in India).

india

Translingual

Symbol

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  • The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
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    thuggee

    English

    (wikipedia Thuggee)

    Noun

  • (historical, countable) A thug (member of band of assassins in India).
  • (historical, uncountable) The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India.
  • *1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1070:
  • *:‘In India, where everything began, this kind of human activity, obscene in itself, was undertaken on behalf of a goddess, called, I think, Kali; the murder was an act of so-called thugee , I was told.’

    • Related terms

    * thug * Thuggism