Hi Guys and Gals,
I'm not a trekkie a niner or a fanatic, I like scifi but not enough to go convention hopping, so the question you'll be asking is what's the reason for joining up and posting ? well I seem to have found a link between the ferengee and the British Empire in India, there is a word that is still in use in the English language called Thug, this comes from the word Thuggee, without going into a huge description the Thuggee's were a tribe with a culture for aquiring property without the usual work involved, there were rules and a culture, "Rules of Aquisition", they were bought down by a thuggee leader called "Feringhea", upon whom later a book was written, all this may seem circumstantial until you look at the apparent profiling that the ferengee are suffering from, from my perspective they seem to be taking on an Indian characteristic, even when you consider the jewellery, so that is the reason I'm posting, it may be an old chestnut here, but I thought it might help somebody who is doing a serious work on the culture of Scifi in relation to past culture etc etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee
The Thugs were suppressed by the British rulers of India during the 1830s.[6] The initiative was due largely to the efforts of civil servant William Henry Sleeman, who captured "Feringhea" (also known as Syeed Amir Ali, on whom the novel Confessions of a Thug is based)
Have a look and let me know what you all think, is it a connection is there a cultural or historic basis for the ferengee in British Empire India ?
I'm not a trekkie a niner or a fanatic, I like scifi but not enough to go convention hopping, so the question you'll be asking is what's the reason for joining up and posting ? well I seem to have found a link between the ferengee and the British Empire in India, there is a word that is still in use in the English language called Thug, this comes from the word Thuggee, without going into a huge description the Thuggee's were a tribe with a culture for aquiring property without the usual work involved, there were rules and a culture, "Rules of Aquisition", they were bought down by a thuggee leader called "Feringhea", upon whom later a book was written, all this may seem circumstantial until you look at the apparent profiling that the ferengee are suffering from, from my perspective they seem to be taking on an Indian characteristic, even when you consider the jewellery, so that is the reason I'm posting, it may be an old chestnut here, but I thought it might help somebody who is doing a serious work on the culture of Scifi in relation to past culture etc etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee
The Thugs were suppressed by the British rulers of India during the 1830s.[6] The initiative was due largely to the efforts of civil servant William Henry Sleeman, who captured "Feringhea" (also known as Syeed Amir Ali, on whom the novel Confessions of a Thug is based)
Have a look and let me know what you all think, is it a connection is there a cultural or historic basis for the ferengee in British Empire India ?
