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- noun Plural form of
dacoity .
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Examples
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Tilak's incitements soon produced tangible results, numerous riots, "dacoities," and murders of Englishmen taking place.
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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Thefts, dacoities, highway robberies, car lifting, purse and cell-phone snatchings have become a common phenomenon and a scourge to blight the citizens day and night.
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Murder, rape, road rage, dacoities and rampant acts of terrorism have become an everyday affair in all the provincial capitals including the federal capital.
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The more intimate knowledge which the police have obtained concerning the habits of this race, and the detection and punishment of many criminals through approvers, have aided in stopping the heavy class of dacoities formerly prevalent, and their operations are now on
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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They also stated that they could not settle in towns; they had always been accustomed to live in the jungles and commit dacoities upon the people of the towns as a kind of _shikar_
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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In house dacoities men are posted at different corners of streets, each with
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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In 1825 it had been estimated that the Oudh forests alone contained from 4000 to 6000 dacoits, while the property stolen in 1811 from known dacoities was valued at ten lakhs of rupees.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Now it is the order that the Havildar of the Thana should send a straight report of all dacoities to the Dipty Sahib.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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They also steal and commit dacoities, house-breaking and thefts on railway trains.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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If a Sipahi was killed in a dacoity his wife was entitled to a sum of Rs. 350 and half an ordinary share in future dacoities as long as she remained with the gang.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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