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Donning the garb of a priest preaching among denotified and marginalised tribal commuities called the Charras and the Sansis, Jadeja basically preyed on the gullibility of these largely impoverished and ignorant folks when he announced that he had been bestowed with miraculous powers to triple their money.
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The fact that Indians, or Charras, as they were called in Durban, owned shops and restaurants and ran their own schools and even built temples with spires and elephant-headed gods right in the middle of town was a source of open resentment.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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They were just Charras: dark men in slick suits with the cheek to think a red-haired Englishwoman would have sex with anyone for money.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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The fact that Indians, or Charras, as they were called in Durban, owned shops and restaurants and ran their own schools and even built temples with spires and elephant-headed gods right in the middle of town was a source of open resentment.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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No, Emmanuel thought, the torch does not belong to the Charras.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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No, Emmanuel thought, the torch does not belong to the Charras.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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They were just Charras: dark men in slick suits with the cheek to think a red-haired Englishwoman would have sex with anyone for money.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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The right wing, as Charras says, was thrown back on the centre.
Les Miserables 2008
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Jomini divides the battle of Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance.
Les Miserables 2008
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The inhabitants of this part of Spain are very peculiar and primitive in their manners, dress, and customs; they are called Charras.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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