| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
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Does anyone know what 'Dacoity' means? (My Webster's New Collegiate
doesn't.) Is it a typo, or what they do in India instead of alcohol and
drug-related deviance?
Rob
Context follows:
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Path: decwrl!labrea!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!linus!philabs!sbcs!sanjiva
Subject: Some vital stats about India
Posted: 5 Dec 87 22:36:05 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
For your information
- Sanjiva
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India (Information from Encyclopaedia Britanncia's year book 1987)
[Most statistics are for year 1986 and are round figure approximations]
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Social Deviance (Offence rate per 100,000 pop.)
Murder : 3.4 Theft/Housebreaking : 43.7 Dacoity : 1.4
Rape : 0.8 Suicides : 6.1 Alcohol & Drug related : n.a.
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| 450.1 | Muggings | MINAR::BISHOP | Mon Dec 07 1987 21:09 | 5 | |
I believe it refers to robbing outside of one's house by a gang.
A "dacoit" is a member of a band of thieves.
-John Bishop
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| 450.2 | idea | YAZOO::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Tue Dec 08 1987 04:56 | 1 |
is it related to thuggie? | |||||
| 450.3 | Crime 1 Etymology 0 | NEARLY::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Tue Dec 08 1987 13:39 | 1 |
That's thuggee, by the way :-) [Sounds more like the victim!] | |||||
| 450.4 | Time and a half on Sundays | CHIC::PETERS | E Unibus Plurum | Tue Dec 08 1987 14:15 | 14 |
Dacoit', n, Indian or Burmese bandit. Dacoit'y, n. piece of dacoit's work. Thug, n. member of an extinct association of robbers and stranglers in India; cut-throat, ruffian. ~gee', ~gery, ~gism, nn, thugs' practices. The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 1930 (Ain't old dictionaries quaint?) Steve | |||||
| 450.5 | Ritual murder. | MLNOIS::HARBIG | Wed Dec 09 1987 10:26 | 12 | |
This is from memory so any corrections are welcomed.
Thugs or members of the cult of Thugee were a religious
sect of robbers and stranglers in India.
Followers of Kali, Godess of Death and Destruction.
They were eventually infiltrated and stamped out sometime
in the 19th Century by the British.
I think the person responsible was Skinner who formed a famous
Indian Cavalry regiment called 'Skinner's Horse'.
I seem to remember that one of the modern Indian names for a
thug or mugger in our sense is 'badmash'.
Max
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