File:Thugs Blinding and Mutilating Traveller.JPG

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The writing above the sketch reads "Thugs stabbing the eyes and bodies of travelers whom they have strangled, preparatory to throwing them in a Well." The travelers are dressed as Hindu Brahmins. Scanned and uploaded by Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:26, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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Scanned from plate between pages 80 and 81 of Peers, Douglas M. (2006). India under colonial rule: 1700-1885. Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-31738-3. Retrieved 31 August 2011.. From the British Library, Add 41300, c5575-05

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1829–1840

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Unknown artist, 1829–1840.

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