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A Note on Dacoits in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

George A. Floris
Affiliation:
New Delhi

Extract

During the years of independence India saw the development of a modern criminal underworld in the large cities. The country has its Chicago-style gangsters, ruffians and teddy boys who kill, rob and intimidate in the same manner as their opposite numbers in the West do. However, the largest section of India's criminal activities is still committed by the most traditional and the most romantic type of criminals, the age-old terrors of the countryside, the dacoits.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1962

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