Anyhow, it got me thinking: amongst the many topics in history I don’t know all that much about, thugee in Indian is high amongst them. Of course, I doubt that they were into magical heart removal or voodoo dolls, but how exactly they did kill, and whether or not they were that closely connected with Kali worship; well that’s all a bit of an unknown to this blogger.
The Wikipedia article gives a bit of a general overview, but I felt it wasn’t the best example of that site’s work. (Although it does get marks for mentioning Temple of Doom, which it probably does on the wise presumption that people like me would have their interest piqued by the movie.) It does seem there has been a bit of historical revisionism going on about what exactly thugee was really all about.
A bit further down on the Google list showed a link to a book about it. This link was to one of those download sites that seem to be all about hoping people will pay for the “fast” download for a (likely?) pirate copy of a movie or book. I don’t think I have ever successfully used one of those sites before; the slow free download usually takes forever and I have given up when seeing the hopeless speed.
But last night I did try it, and got a pretty fast free download. I then tried to do it direct to the iPad, using Goodreader (one of the limitations of an iPad is that you can’t directly save .pdf or other web files directly from the browser. You have to use an App such as Goodreader.) That didn’t work, but I eventually got the book into my iPad via my computer and iTunes.
So, now I have a free .pdf of a book on my iPad which I actually want to read, or at least skim. I will report further on any thugee discoveries as they come.
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