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  • Also, such a high proportion of the total force set aside for "bandobust" (the ritual assembly of police officers along different points of a VVIP's route and at the VVIP's meeting places) is unreasonably high given that the total number of the worthies benefiting by such manpower-wasteful British Raj-style methods of protection is less than 2,000 in a country of 1.16 billion people.

    JINSA Online - 2009

  • Brigadiers, of course, do not starve; they would not, even if they possessed no _bandobust_ [27] of their own.

    On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

  • That's a better _bandobust_ than baynit get it in your innards.

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • That's a better _bandobust_ than baynit get it in your innards.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Police bandobust was the heaviest at Inox, where State Home Minister R.R. Patil strolled in along with Minister of State (Home) R.mesh Bagwe for the first show of the day at 12.55 p.m.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Police bandobust was the heaviest at Inox, where State Home Minister R.R. Patil strolled in along with Minister of State (Home) R.mesh Bagwe for the first show of the day at 12.55 p.m.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Police bandobust was the heaviest at Inox, where State Home Minister R.R. Patil strolled in along with Minister of State (Home) R.mesh Bagwe for the first show of the day at 12.55 p.m.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Police said about 2,500 strong police force, including armed guards, Tamil Nadu special police battalions, rapid action force and CRPF would be deployed on bandobust duty in the city.

    Analysis 2010

  • Police bandobust was the heaviest at Inox, where State Home Minister R.R. Patil strolled in along with Minister of State (Home) R.mesh Bagwe for the first show of the day at 12.55 p.m.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • The police, who found themselves on tenterhooks in making special bandobust for the VIP trip in the tribal pocket, managed to skip a few highly affected villages from their programme.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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  • Bandobust arrangements mean arrangements to look after the orderliness of any crowd mamooth gathering in a fair or festival or in a public meeting (.) used in South India particularly in Chennai police Tamil Nadu Police (.) It is quite different from security arrangements which are done discreetly to find out trouble shooters etc.

    August 14, 2009