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SIR WILLIAM HENRY SLEEMAN (1788-1856)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 238 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:HENRY See also:SLEEMAN (1788-1856)  , See also:Indian soldier and See also:administrator, was See also:born at Stratton, See also:Cornwall, on the 8th of See also:August 1788 . He was the son of See also:Philip See also:Sleeman, See also:yeoman and supervisor of See also:excise . In 1809 he joined the See also:Bengal See also:army, served in the See also:Nepal See also:War(1814-1816), and in 182o became assistant to the See also:governor-See also:general's See also:agent in the See also:Saugor and See also:Nerbudda territories . He is best known for his suppression of the See also:Thugs or religious murderers in See also:India, becoming See also:superintendent of the operations against them in 1835, and See also:commissioner for the suppression of Thuggi and Dacoity in 1839 . During these operations more than 1400 Thugs were hanged or transported for See also:life, one of whom confessed to having committed over 700 murders . Detection was only possible by means of informers, for whose See also:protection from the vengeance of their associates a See also:special See also:gaol was established at See also:Jubbulpore . Sleeman was See also:resident at See also:Gwalior 1843-1849, and at See also:Lucknow 1849-1856 . He was opposed to the See also:annexation of Oudh by See also:Lord See also:Dalhousie, but his See also:advice was disregarded . He died at See also:sea on his way See also:home on the loth of See also:February 1856 . See See also:Sir H . Sleeman, Rambles and Recollections of an Indian See also:Official (1844; and edition, 1893), and A See also:Journey through Oudh (1858) .

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