Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48
Laws in British India
Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48
The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48 in British India under East India Company rule were a series of legal acts that outlawed thugee—a practice in North and Central India involving robbery and ritualized murder and mutilation on highways—and dacoity, a form of banditry prevalent in the same region, and prescribed punishment for the same.
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