phansigar

Examples

• The word Thug signifies generically a cheat or robber, while Phansigar, which was the name used in southern India, is derived from phansi, a noose, and means a strangler.

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala

• The Phansigars, says L. T. Peale in the Detroit Free Press, belonged to no particular caste, being recruited from the Hindoos, Mohammedans, pariahs or outcasts, and even the Brahmins.

  'A Bloodthirsty Lot,' The Daily Reporter, October 10, 1889

• 'Phansigar!' he whispered, with a hushed voice of fear even in that jungle solitude, and with the tiger's jaws already crunching the bones of the strangler not many rods away. 'Phansigar! He was the servant of Kali, and his noose was ready when the Lord of the Jungle called on him.'

  C. T. Ferris, 'Thug and Tiger,' Auckland Star, July 1897