Robbery vs Thuggee - What's the difference?
robbery | thuggee |
The act or practice of robbing.
(legal) The offense of attempting to take the property of another by threat of force.
(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.’