Sundarban Mini-trip

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(01-01-2018, 12:23 PM)Rishi Wrote: Anyway the word thagi literally means "cheater". In pre-1850 India when population was thin, they had villages along traveling & trade routes. At evening wary travelers approached them for shelter for the night & they obliged. Later that night.....
The Mughals tried to deal with the problem by building inns along the road. They simply switched tactics & would join parties as fellow travellers to gain their confidence. And later strangle them in their sleep, with a handkerchief or noose. 

They were more of a sect of common highway robbers, than a murderous secret cult. They drifted away from the mainstream to protect secrecy & intermarried only amongst themselves, thus turning into a social group.

There were others like them such as the thyangare, meaning "lynchers". The name is pretty much explains their modus operandi. They'd pounce upon travellers with cane/bamboo sticks & beat them to death.

Even today every now and then hundreds of years old skulls are found from tilling paddy fields or digging construction sites.

PS: I doubt i'll be able to leave the city anyone soon. There maybe a father's office picnic at the East Kolkata Wetlands in February though.

I think the reason for ongoing already many centuries Islamisation of Bengal are those monsters (the thuugees) because they created a bad "karma" to your great civilisation. Probably Bengalies should return to the great philosophy of Vedas and Upanishads and to be always ready to cut any deformation of the religion otherwise in one century all province is going to be concered by Islamic fundamentalists...

So Rishi, where are you going to work after you finish your studies in the Forest Department? Probably you have 2 options - Sundarban or as Shardul mentioned the Northern edge of the province where still some forests survived. Because Bengal is the most dencly populated aria of the planet and I have a doubts that any forests are survived in the central arias of the province. If I am in your place probably will choose Sundarban due to proximity to your home. Or maybe you can move to other Indian province whith more forests. Reply