1. _Historical notice_.
2. _Thuggee depicted in the caves of Ellora_.
3. _Origin of the Thugs_.
4. _Methods of assassination_.
5. _Account of certain murders_.
6. _Special incidents (continued)_.
7. _Disguises of the Thugs_.
8. _Secrecy of their operations_.
9. _Support of landholders and villagers_.
10. _Murder of sepoys_.
11. _Callous nature of the Thugs_.
12. _Belief in divine support_.
13. _Theory of Thuggee as a religious sect_.
14. _Worship of Kali_.
15. _The sacred pickaxe_.
16. _The sacred gur (sugar)_.
17. _Worship of ancestors_.
18. _Fasting_.
19. _Initiation of a novice_.
20. _Prohibition of murder of women_.
21. _Other classes of persons not killed_.
22. _Belief in omens_.
23. _Omens and taboos_.
24. _Nature of the belief in omens_.
25. _Suppression of Thuggee_.