But throughout the plateau dacoities were rife and petty wars were raging.
Nowhere have there been any revolts, nowhere any insubordination or sedition; hardly anywhere, except along the frontier with Burma, any dacoities or gang robberies.
So far," he wrote, "from the crime of dacoity having been eradicated by British administration, each year more dacoities are committed than in the one preceding.
After a time the Taungdwingyi subdivision also became disturbed, and dacoities became frequent.
Small raids and dacoities occurred here, as in most parts of the province, at that time.
And it must suffice for the present purpose to note that they commitdacoities and have their receivers of stolen property, and that the Naik or headman of the gang takes an active share in the commission of crime.
In house dacoities men are posted at different corners of streets, each with a supply of well-chosen round stones to keep off any people coming to the rescue.
The following notice of Banjara criminals is abstracted from Major Gunthorpe's interesting account: [232] "In the palmy days of the tribe dacoities were undertaken on the most extensive scale.
And maces constituted the rafts (by which many sought to cross it).
Thefts and dacoities are, under normal conditions, crimes because they destroy the sense of social security, but "to destroy it for the highest good is no sin, but rather a work of religious merit.
Political" dacoities were soon in vogue again, and in 1905 there was an epidemic of house-breaking in and around Kolhapur, which enriched the club with several thousands of rupees and a few arms.
The disturbances at Bir were, in fact, the starting point of that new form of political propagandism which takes the shape of dacoitiesor armed robberies for the benefit of the "patriotic" war-chest.
Moreover, dacoitiesand persistent raiding by the hill-tribes served still further to unsettle the country, and so poor was the authority of the king that these lawless acts and expeditions threatened to overflow into British territory.
But, however instigated, these dacoities proved a serious trouble and menace to British authority, and some stiff fighting, attended however with little loss of life, had to be gone through before the country was finally pacified.
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