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The '''Thuggee and Dacoity Department''' was an organ of the [[East India Company]],<ref name="Roy1998">{{cite book|author=Parama Roy|title=Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xp82WhOGBnAC&pg=PA41|accessdate=24 August 2013|year=1998|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-91768-2|pages=41–}}</ref> and inherited by [[British India]], which was established in 1830<ref name="Shah1993">{{cite book|author=Giriraj Shah|title=Image Makers: An Attitudinal Study of Indian Police|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sHAmkBpUoIC&pg=PA52|accessdate=24 August 2013|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-295-6|pages=52–}}</ref> with the mission of addressing ''[[dacoity]]'' (banditry), [[highway robbery]], and particularly the [[Thuggee]] cult of robbers.<br />
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Among the Department's more recognised members was Colonel [[William Sleeman]], who headed the outfit from 1835–39 and is known as the man who eliminated the Thuggee.<ref name="Shah1993"/><br />
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In 1874, [[Sir Edward Bradford, 1st Baronet]] was made General Superintendent of the Thuggee and Dacoit Department.<br />
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The department existed until 1904, when it was replaced by the [[Central Criminal Intelligence Department]].<ref name="Ciccodicola2012">{{cite book|author=Floriana Ciccodicola|title=Practicing Anthropology in Development Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq9QSx4CQLAC&pg=PA210|accessdate=24 August 2013|year=2012|publisher=Edizioni Nuova Cultura|isbn=978-88-6134-791-5|pages=210–}}</ref><br />
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