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dacoit
Over the past four years she has become her country's most notorious dacoit.
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It was the largest dacoit massacre since the founding of modern India.
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Chambal dacoit Nirbhay Singh Gujjar achieved national renown before being killed in 2005.
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Last October, Narayan told me, he had been visited by a man claiming to be a lesser dacoit.
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But the title of the most legendary dacoit is held by Daku Man Singh.
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It has to be pretty frustrating for Phoolan to be playing a symbolic and political role after having been a dacoit.
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The character of Gabbar Singh was modeled on a real-life dacoit of the same name who menaced the villages around Gwalior in the 1950s.
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The film, shot in the rocky terrain of Ramanagara, Karnataka, is the story of two criminals hired to capture a ruthless dacoit by the name of Gabbar Singh.
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She is a Hindu fatalist by birth, yet she often reflects on God, and she told me that as a dacoit she feared for her afterlife should her dead body fall into police hands.
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- A member of an armed gang of robbers
- Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in Bengali, Hindi, Kannada and Urdu. The spelling is the anglicized version of the Hindustani word and as a colloquial Anglo-Indian word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases (1903). Banditry is criminal activity involving robbery by groups of armed bandits...
- Armed robbers, murderous highway-men
