Thuggee robbers were known for throwing a lance at a passerby's feet, knocking him to the ground and robbing him of everything "Phabda" means small stick When the lance is hit, the passerby is hanged to death Sometimes, when the passerby falls on the sudden blow of the lance, the thuggee will press the burnt finger of the leg into the passerby's navel.

Then if they can, they will put the whole leg in this way and kill him and loot everything These were the thuggee robbers.

The first mention of thugs appears in the Tarikh-i-Firozshahi written by Ziauddin Barani Barani states that during the reign of Sultan Jalaluddin Firoz Shah Khalji (1290-96 AD), the Sultan captured a thousand thugs on the basis of his information about a thug who befriended him Later, they were pardoned and exiled to Lakshmavati (Lakshmanavati).

Thugs were born in India when Muslim invaders began attacking the people of this country There was no thug in this country before that Evidence of this is the account of the Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang Hiuen Tsang came to Nalanda, India from China, thousands of miles away, during the birth of Islam in the Arabian region around 629 AD.

As for the common people of this country, he said, they have no financial trickery and are scrupulous in the administration of justice They are neither deceitful nor treacherous in their conduct, but very faithful in their oaths The number of crimes that cause trouble is very small for them.

In Muslim times, these good people became robbers, looters, and thugs! The Muslim rulers of this country were responsible for this The "infidel" Hindus, the second-class citizens of this country, who were suffering from poverty and other humiliations, had to leave their homes and take refuge in the remote hills and forests.

They had no means of earning a living They were forced to choose banditry.

1612-1614 Nicholas Withington was on a visit to India in AD He saw on one side the jewels that had dazzled the eyes of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, on the other, a group of ordinary poor people who had been robbed for survival His group had also fallen to one such bandit and lost everything, including their weapons.

RC Prasad says that the band of robbers described by Withington in the days of the Mughal Empire's power were thugs In fact, many of them took refuge in the hills and forests during the reigns of the Mughal Emperors Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb, unable to pay the "jizya" tax.

These later became dacoits.

The accounts of this banditry are recorded by most Muslim historians of the medieval period Hindus were robbed of their homes, burnt to ashes, and their wives and children taken away, and they took refuge in the hills and forests They were joined by poor people who could not bear the burden of unbearable taxes.

Later these became "robbers of the highways " This number was several lakhs For, during the reign of Jahangir alone, two hundred thousand people were captured from the jungles and sold as slaves.

Such a bandit was captured by Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller to India during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughluq Ibn Battuta's band of twenty-two horsemen, consisting of some Arabs, some Persians, and some Turks, were intercepted by a group of renegade Hindus, including two horsemen, coming down from the impregnable Mooltan Hill.

Ibn Battuta was eventually saved by twelve men, including one horseman, but he too was killed by arrows Much later in the British period, Major Schliemann, under Lord Bentinck, suppressed these formidable bandits.