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So, amir khan, amitabh bacchan and katrina kaif starrer thugs of hindostan's trailer
is out and it is amazing.
This movie is making some news for its eerie similarities to pirates of the Caribbean.
Often used as slang the term thug has indian origin and a deep history attached to it,
which i will reveal in this video further but first, let us see who were the real thugs
of hindostan.
Thugs "a murderous cult tribe" who will make the current crop of criminals look like
amateurs.
They numbered 10,000 and they killed 30,000 a year!
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Thuggee cult was responsible for approximately
two million deaths.
Why did they do that?
They tried to cover their crimes claiming that the Hindu Goddess Kali Bhowanee is happy
and more so in proportion to the blood that is shed".
I will cover that aspect of history subsequently.
Meet Thug Behram from British era India!!
Played by Amitabh Bacchan as Khudabaksh.
Sleeman's writings caught the imagination of the British reader.
At a time of evangelical missions in India, 'thugs' became an appropriate symbol of the
'darkness and strangeness' of the East, that was in dire need to be 'controlled'.
The history of thug becomes a mystery, and unknowability of the truth in the face of
no physical-historical remains of thuggee, adds to our fascination.
Thug was name of a Jati in India which used to live in forest.
They were big hurdle for British in colonization of India as they used to fight against British
who wanted to destroy their forest, hence they were vilified and killed by British.
"The British themselves committed many horrible acts while justifying them by compiling what
is known as atrocity literature to depict the savagery of Indians.
For example: The Criminal Tribes Act was passed in 1871
and made it lawful to perform genocide against a list of Indian tribes who were deemed to
be 'criminals', including every member of these tribes right from birth.
Many tribes were condemned not because they were 'criminal' , but because they were fighting
against the British destruction of their jungles and other habitats.
Thugs, who claim their inception from the sweat of goddess Kali.
When goddess Kali was fighting with the demon king Raktbij, every time a drop of Raktbij's
blood fell on the land it created another clone of Raktbij.
Kali then created two humans with her sweat, armed with a piece of cloth each to strangle
the clones while she spread her tongue over the earth to avoid any other drop landing
on the land and devoured them.
She also asked them to kill all the humans who were not of their tribe, while she went
on the rage ridden killing spree.
Lord Shiva had to intervene to placate her, he lay in her path.
Their version of the story.
However, a lot of the captured Thugs were Muslims and Sikhs as well, exemplary display
of Unity in diversity.
In 1935, William Henry Sleeman, a Civil servant and an army officer was put in charge of the
Jubbulpore district, where he saw the menace of the Thugs and made it a personal objective
to eradicate Thugee and stop the murders.
Behram Jamadar, played by Amtabh Bachhan as Khudabaksh, leader of the cult assassins,
who operated near Jabalpur from 1780s till 1840, was a ruthless killer who, upon being
arrested agreed to recall 931 murders that he was responsible for out of which he himself
strangled 125 victims by his yellow rumal.
One of the Thugs Syed Amir Ali, payed by AMir Khan as Firangi, who turned informant told
about the whereabouts of his Thug brethren and showed the mass graves to the police.
It was normal for a captured Thug to turn informant as they believed that it was a wish
of Goddess Kali and that they were not doing their duties(of killing people) diligently.
Behram reigned for more than half of a century but captured in 1940 and hanged by a mango
tree in Jabalpur.
Death of Behram marked the end of the cult of Thugee.
So, it still remains to be seen how the thugs of hindostan will do justice to reality or
will it just play with the superficial fascination of the fiction.
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