The thugs comprised both men who had inherited thuggee as a family vocation, as well as those who were forced to turn to it out of necessity. Although strangulation is one of their most-recognised methods of murder, they also used blades and poison. They used a jargon known as Ramasee to disguise their true intentions from their targets. Usage of military-style ranks such as jemadar and subedar among Thugs as well as reference to individual members as a " private", suggests that the organisation of their gangs had a military link. Sometimes they mutilated the corpses of their victims to avoid detection. To avoid suspicion, they avoided carrying more than a few swords. A common method used was to distract their victims by engaging them in conversation, so that others in the band could strangle them swiftly from behind. They often pretended to be either Hindu or Muslim to fool their victims. Many of them avoided committing thuggee near the areas in which they lived, making the discovery of their crimes a difficult task. They flattered travellers they met, which gave them a chance to assess what wealth their targets might have. They did not accost travellers unless their own numbers were greater than those of their victims.
The methods used by the Thugs were meant to reap maximum loot without being caught. Their attire as travellers would deceive peasants and royalty alike. Initially they wore turbans and carried with them a certain amount of baggage. The Thuggee units would assume the physical appearance of travellers. During the 1830s, the thugs were targeted for eradication by the Governor-General of India, Lord William Bentinck, and his chief captain, William Henry Sleeman.
This led to the thugs being called Phansigar ( "using a noose"), a term more commonly used in southern India.
They would then rob and bury their victims. To take advantage of their victims, the thugs would join travellers and gain their confidence, which would allow them to surprise and strangle the travellers with a handkerchief or noose. Thugs are said to have operated as gangs of highway robbers, tricking and later strangling their victims. Thugs were said to have travelled in groups across the Indian subcontinent. Contemporary scholarship is increasingly skeptical of the thuggee concept, and has questioned the existence of such a phenomenon, which has led many historians to describe thuggee as the invention of the British colonial regime. This term, describing the murder and robbery of travellers, was popular in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, especially northern and eastern regions of historical India (present-day northern/eastern India and Bangladesh). Related words are the verb thugna ('to deceive'), from the Sanskrit स्थग ( sthaga ' cunning, sly, fraudulent') and स्थगति ( sthagati, 'he conceals'). The English word thug traces its roots to the Hindi ठग ( ṭhag), which means 'swindler' or 'deceiver'.
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Thuggee ( UK: / θ ʌ ˈ ɡ iː/, US: / ˈ θ ʌ ɡ i/) are actions and crimes carried out by Thugs, historically, organised gangs of professional robbers and murderers in India.
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