More Classy "Christians"

evince said:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024375143


The word tuggee comes from Hindi thag ‘thief’, from Sanskrit sthaga ‘scoundrel’, from sthagati ‘to conceal’. It was an Indian network of secret fraternities, cult-like in many ways, who were engaged in robbing and killing British colonialist. To the British, any brown-skinned face that they saw on the road, or in their imagination, was a “thug” coming to get them, while they innocently made their way through the lands they exploited and colonized.

This is the origin of the term “thug”, as many Indian words passed into common English during British Imperial rule of India. British colonists, however, did not refer to other European imperialists as “thugs,” it was specifically a term in British parlance for the dark skinned “natives” that they feared.
Click to expand...

and all this time I thought tuggee was a customer of an Asian massage parlor.......
 
evince said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee



Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali ठग्गी ṭhaggī; Urdu: ٹھگ‎; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: ٺوڳي، ٺڳ‎; Kannada: ಠಕ್ಕ thakka) refers to the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across South Asia for six hundred years.[1] Although the Thugs traced their origin to seven Muslim tribes, Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period. They were first mentioned in Ẓiyā-ud-Dīn Baranī's History of Fīrūz Shāh, dated around 1356.[2] During the 1830s, the Thugs were targeted for eradication by Governor-General of India, William Bentinck and his chief captain, William Henry Sleeman. Thugs were apparently destroyed by this effort.[1][3]

To take advantage of their victims, the Thugs would join travellers and gain their confidence; this would allow them to surprise and strangle the travellers with a handkerchief or noose. They would then rob and bury their victims. This led to the Thugs being called Phansigar (English: using a noose), a term more commonly used in southern India.[4] The word "Thuggee" derives from the Hindi ठग (ṭhag), which means "deceiver". Related words are the verb thugna ("to deceive"), from the Sanskrit स्थग (sthaga "cunning, sly, fraudulent") and स्थगति (sthagati, "he conceals").[5] This term, describing the murder and robbery of travellers, is popular in South Asia and particularly India.
Click to expand...

Do you realize you just proved that the word thug is not tied to skin color, thus not a racist term?
 
thug
THəɡ/
noun
1.
a violent person, especially a criminal.
synonyms: ruffian, hooligan, vandal, hoodlum, gangster, villain, criminal; More

2.
slang code for any male black urban youth, chiefly used by Fox News and other right wing racist organizations.

3.
historical
a member of a religious organization of robbers and assassins in India. Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travelers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.
 
Leonthecat said:
thug
THəɡ/
noun
1.
a violent person, especially a criminal.
synonyms: ruffian, hooligan, vandal, hoodlum, gangster, villain, criminal; More

2.
slang code for any male black urban youth, chiefly used by Fox News and other right wing racist organizations.

3.
historical
a member of a religious organization of robbers and assassins in India. Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travelers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.
Click to expand...

Give a link to that you lying racist POS.
 
I think Dems and leftists should be told to stop voting for white nominees for offices and leadership positions, because it's racist. It's one thing to do it in Vermont, but in California, there's no reason why there should be a single white Democratic Congressperson or Senator.
 
Establishment said:
I think Dems and leftists should be told to stop voting for white nominees for offices and leadership positions, because it's racist. It's one thing to do it in Vermont, but in California, there's no reason why there should be a single white Democratic Congressperson or Senator.
Click to expand...

Read an article recently talking about the racial identity fights among democrats here in California. The Republican Party is so neutered here that they can barely find candidates to run for statewide positions. So it's an internal fight among Democrats
 
evince said:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024375143


The word tuggee comes from Hindi thag ‘thief’, from Sanskrit sthaga ‘scoundrel’, from sthagati ‘to conceal’. It was an Indian network of secret fraternities, cult-like in many ways, who were engaged in robbing and killing British colonialist. To the British, any brown-skinned face that they saw on the road, or in their imagination, was a “thug” coming to get them, while they innocently made their way through the lands they exploited and colonized.

This is the origin of the term “thug”, as many Indian words passed into common English during British Imperial rule of India. British colonists, however, did not refer to other European imperialists as “thugs,” it was specifically a term in British parlance for the dark skinned “natives” that they feared.
Click to expand...

43
 
evince said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee



Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali ठग्गी ṭhaggī; Urdu: ٹھگ‎; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: ٺوڳي، ٺڳ‎; Kannada: ಠಕ್ಕ thakka) refers to the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across South Asia for six hundred years.[1] Although the Thugs traced their origin to seven Muslim tribes, Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period. They were first mentioned in Ẓiyā-ud-Dīn Baranī's History of Fīrūz Shāh, dated around 1356.[2] During the 1830s, the Thugs were targeted for eradication by Governor-General of India, William Bentinck and his chief captain, William Henry Sleeman. Thugs were apparently destroyed by this effort.[1][3]

To take advantage of their victims, the Thugs would join travellers and gain their confidence; this would allow them to surprise and strangle the travellers with a handkerchief or noose. They would then rob and bury their victims. This led to the Thugs being called Phansigar (English: using a noose), a term more commonly used in southern India.[4] The word "Thuggee" derives from the Hindi ठग (ṭhag), which means "deceiver". Related words are the verb thugna ("to deceive"), from the Sanskrit स्थग (sthaga "cunning, sly, fraudulent") and स्थगति (sthagati, "he conceals").[5] This term, describing the murder and robbery of travellers, is popular in South Asia and particularly India.
Click to expand...

46
 
evince said:
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8s20097j&chunk.id=ch2


At the time that Burton was impersonating Mirza Abdullah in the bazaars of Sind, another important narrative of disguise, surveillance, and racial crossing was being written in the subcontinent, this one under the auspices of the Thuggee and Dacoity Department of the East India Company’s government. This was the narrative of the exposure and extirpation of a form of hereditary criminality called thuggee; it was to form a significant constitutive component of the authoritarian and interventionary reform of the 1830s and 1840s and to contribute to the still-emerging project of “discovering India.” “It was with the flourish of mystery unveiled and mastered,” writes a contemporary historian, “that a group of officers of the Political Department had lobbied for special operations against [a] ‘murderous fraternity’ and for special laws to deal with it.” [1] It is that tale of thuggee that this chapter will take up, at least in part as a counterpoint to the Burtonian record of the Englishman as native. It examines the phenomenon designated thuggee by colonial authority in nineteenth-century India, a phenomenon whose emergence, codification, and overthrow was to become perhaps the founding moment for the study of indigenous criminality, as a problem of impersonation, visibility, and the transactions of reading. I use the example of thuggee to explore one of the various and often mutually discontinuous kinds of identities that were created, fixed, or rendered ambivalent for Indian colonial subjects. In approaching the problematic of thuggee in the colonial context through the optic of identity formation and subjection, I broach a nexus of concerns that cohere around the epistemes of representation and knowledge: the problematic of the formation of colonial knowledge, the contested, changing, and uneven definitions of law, order, criminality, and reform in early-nineteenth-century India, the theorization of colonial identities (Indian and British), and the discursive problems associated with generating the moral subject of the civilizing mission of British colonialism.
Click to expand...

56
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top