We remind them that among themselves there have been tribes that have from generation to generation lived by thuggery and dacoity (murder and robbery).
From Dacoity and Thuggery Europeans had nothing to fear, but natives suffered frightfully; and special departments were formed for their suppression.
Men who were too old to go on dacoity also received their share, and all children, even babies born during the absence of the expedition.
The first part of this article is entirely compiled from the Report on their suppression drawn up by Colonel Sleeman, [41] who may be regarded as the virtual founder of the Thuggee and Dacoity Department.
It was in celebration of a dacoity in which they had obtained Rs.
Major Gunthorpe states that the Banjaras are accustomed to drink before setting out for a dacoity or robbery and, as they smoke after drinking, the remains of leaf-pipes lying about the scene of action may indicate their handiwork.
In committing a highway robbery or dacoity they are always armed with stout sticks.
They are also very fond of dacoity and often proceed on expeditions, their victims being usually travellers, or the Ahirs who bring large herds of cattle to graze in the Sarguja forests.
They were formerly addicted to dacoityand cattle-theft.
But they are also much addicted to crime, and when they have decided on a dacoity or house-breaking they have a good drinking-bout and start off with their dogs as if to hunt the boar.
But dacoity or robbery was made punishable with death, though magistrates were instructed to pass capital sentences only in very heinous cases.
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.
Another example of dacoity in Upper Burma may be taken from the Myingyan district.
Sir Robert Low's warning that this would be the last stronghold of dacoity or organized resistance was justified by events.
When his band melted away, and dacoity became too hazardous a sport, he simply disappeared.
One night, when on tour in a country boat, he was aroused by the report of a dacoity close by.
During my year at Pantanaw one murder was committed and one dacoity was reported.
If a Sipahi was killed in a dacoity his wife was entitled to a sum of Rs.
If they did not meet with a favourable omen on any of these nights, no dacoity was committed that month.
The description of a dacoity is combined from two accounts given at pp.
They travel great distances in gangs of from twelve to twenty men, practising robbery and dacoity even as far as the Deccan.
If any Sansia happened to commit a murder when engaged in a dacoity he was afterwards obliged to make an offering for forgiveness, and to spend a rupee and a quarter in liquor for the caste-fellows.
Dacoity is still the crime which they most affect, and they also break into houses and steal cattle.
One man was appointed to carry the torch, [613] and the oil to be poured on this had always to be purchased in the town or village where the dacoity was to take place, the use of any other oil being considered most unlucky.
Omens The Sansias never committed a dacoity on moonlight nights, but had five appointed days during the dark half of the month, the seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth and the night of the day on which the new moon was first seen.
Organisation for dacoity As in the case of the Badhaks the arrangements for a dacoity were carefully organised.
About a mile from the place of the dacoity they stopped and mustered their party, and the Jemadar called out to the god Bhagwan to direct any pursuers in the wrong direction and enable them to reach their families.
Ordinarily when committing dacoity they are armed with sticks and stones only.
Another Sansia said: "We think it very favourable if, when on the way to commit a dacoity we hear or see the jackal; it is as good as gold and silver to us; also if we hear the bray of the ass in a village we consider it to be lucky.
Wholesale murders were of constant occurrence within the precincts of the palace; dacoity was rife throughout the country, and British officers were insulted to such an extent that the Resident had to be withdrawn.
The Police discovered that a warrant remained unexecuted against one of them, who had been concerned in a dacoity case in North Arcot many years previously.
The Kallans' inveterate addiction to dacoityand theft render the caste to this day a thorn in the flesh of the authorities.
Koravas, being highly superstitious, are constantly on the look-out for omens, especially before starting out on an excursion when the objective is dacoity or housebreaking.
It was information of this ceremony having been performed which led to the detection of a torchlight dacoity in the Cuddapah district in 1896.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dacoity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
