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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: enforced, or if denied it, plundered the entire column, despite the armed convoys supposed to guard it, their shoutings, their threats and wordy defiances?for these guards or escorts generally at once surrendered to the exaction, or abandoned their charge at the first indication of the sudden swoop upon them. In our own bordering districts too, the roads were intermittently equally unsafe, and even mail carts and dak runners were not exempted from plunder, notwithstanding the precautions, so to call the ineffectual guards of horsemen appointed to and supposed to escort them. This state of things it was a part of my special duties to endeavour to cope with, and to do so inexorably. But this was not all?connected therewith the crime of poisoning, that is, of Thuggee by means of poison, also engaged my close attention, in addition to many other requirements of a like nature. The prosecution of the latter crime had of recent years, by reason of the insufficiency of the obtaining law against it, and the consequent inability of the special thuggee police to apply the approver system for its suppression, been allowed to languish. It prevailed, more or less, throughout India. The habit of the miscreants who practised it, was to administer poison in various forms, more generally through the medium of the seeds of the dhatura plant, procurable broadcast at every wayside, to travellers on the road or when alighted in towns or villages; and it had in a measure, superseded the old crime of thuggee by strangling them, and consequently belonged to the cognizance of the special police under my control. The crime of poisoning travellers (departmentally called dhaturea, from the more frequent use of the seeds of the dhatura plant?Dhatura stramonium?for its purposes, ) was described...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217794923
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 122
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217794920
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 231 gr


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