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Updated: June 20, 2025
In Sleeman's time about two thousand Thugs were arrested and put to death every year, but nevertheless their numbers, towards the end of the nineteenth century, were steadily increasing.
Then a part of the family went to Sleeman's house, ten miles away, and tried again to get him to let her burn herself. He refused, hoping to save her yet. All that day she scorched in her sheet on the rock, and all that night she kept her vigil there in the bitter cold. By these acts she became a dead person in the eye of the law, and excluded from her caste forever.
Sleeman's Division, with Gen. Sleeman as President of the Court. The boy answered that he had no objections; 'for, said he, 'I do not know any of the officers. I know but few persons in the army. I know only my messmates. I am not acquainted with any of the officers of my own company. I know their names, but have no personal acquaintance with either of them.
Under the sod of Captain Sleeman's tent were found the bodies of the first party, consisting of a pundit and his six attendants, murdered in 1818. Another party of five, murdered in 1824, were under the ground at the place where the Captain's horses had been tied up for the night; and four Brahmin carriers of the Ganges water, with a woman, were buried under his sleeping tent.
Perhaps there are few communities in the world, among whom education is more generally diffused than among the Mahometans in India. II. pp. 282, 283. Colonel Sleeman's work is one of the best ever published on India, learned, liberal, and philosophical. It has been highly praised by so competent a judge as Mr.
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