Dacoits

No longer are professional robbers called Dacoits allowed to set out on excursions, and make their way under various disguises to towns, to rise at an arranged signal, attack the houses of the rich, and force them, often under torture, to reveal their treasures.

Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

Dacoits, rebels — yes; but not these poor cringing rats!

Burmese Days 2002

"Phoolan Devi, dacoit beauty; beloved of Vikram Mallah, Emperor of Dacoits."

India's Bandit Queen 1996

"Phoolan Devi, dacoit beauty; beloved of Vikram Mallah, Emperor of Dacoits."

India's Bandit Queen 1996

Dacoits, the refuge of conspirators and insurgents and the terror of

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

The duties of this post "involved not only direct authority over the ordinary relations of society, but the active pursuit of bands of Dacoits, Thugs and robbers," and occasional military expeditions to reduce some lawless chief to obedience.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

Those men have rendered invaluable service to India by giving the villagers peace, by capturing the plundering Dacoits and raiders.

The British Achievement in India 1931

[193] Hutton's _Thugs, Dacoits and Gang-robbers of India_ (1857), pp. 164-168, quoting an account by Captain Barr. [194] This article is based on papers by Rai Sahib Nanakchand, B.A.,

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

A small work, Hutton's _Thugs and Dacoits_, has been quoted for convenience, but it is compiled entirely from Colonel Sleeman's Reports.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

[604] _Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits_ (1849), p. 328.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894