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Definition of Goondas
1. goonda [n] - See also: goonda
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goondas
Literary usage of Goondas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" by Smita Narula (1999)
"... Dalit youths under preventive detention laws like the Tamil Nadu goondas ...
Nadu goondas Act allows for the preventive detention of those considered to ..."
2. Fifty Years' Reminiscences of India: A Retrospect of Travel, Adventure and by Fitz William Thomas Pollok (1896)
"The two varieties interbreed, no doubt, and perhaps this accounts for the difference
perceptible even amongst goondas. Some animals of huge size have tusks, ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1900)
"... from the time of its capture to its employment in the timber-yards. The Burmese
species is roughly distinguished by traders as the "goondas" and the ..."
4. Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels by Human Rights Watch/Asia, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1995)
"... goondas [thugs], that she is defiled by them, and ill-treated in many ways.
Tara's testimony reflects some of the most persistent myths of the ..."
5. The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"Lata, who was on the bus, told Human Rights Watch: When we were on the bus, two
goondas [thugs] and police entered the bus and told us to get off the bus. ..."
6. Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills: With by Fitz William Thomas Pollok (1879)
"... the Asiatic and the African, I think the former might be subdivided into two
varieties, one the goondas, those that have large tusks, ..."
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