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Definition of Dakoits
1. dakoit [n] - See also: dakoit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dakoits
Literary usage of Dakoits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. There and Back Again in Search of Beauty by James Augustus St. John (1853)
"I know it is fashionable to sympathise with men of this caste, the Thugs and
dakoits of European society. And such sympathy must, no doubt, be, ..."
2. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"At Nadiya, two thousand and seventy-one persons were apprehended as dakoits from
the 20th May, 1808, to the 31st of May, 1809 ; of whom no less than one ..."
3. The Administration of the East India Company: A History of Indian Progress by John William Kaye (1853)
"In this letter the magistrate reported that the 287 dakoits mentioned by his ...
Of the dakoits whom he had catalogued his approvers could give him no ..."
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