Lexicographical Neighbors of Thagi
Literary usage of Thagi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"General character of crime in India—Good conduct of the people—thagi, its horrid
characteristics, ... The rise and spread of thagi has left a stain upon ..."
2. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"General character of crime in India—Good conduct of the people—thagi, ... The rise
and spread of thagi has left a stain upon the history of the eighteenth ..."
3. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"General character of crime in India—Good conduct of the people—thagi, ... The rise
and spread of thagi has left a stain upon the history of the eighteenth ..."
4. India, Past and Present by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay (1903)
"To Lord William Bentinck is due the honor of having suppressed those ancient,
but abominable institutions — Sati and thagi. The origin of Sati is obscure, ..."
5. The Making of British India, 1756-1858 by Ramsay Muir (1915)
"The noted evils to which I refer, are Sati, thagi, Female Infanticide, ...
thagi has become almost unknown in the provinces of India which lie to the ..."
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