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A Note on Dacoits in India

1962; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0010417500001419

1475-2999

George A. Floris,

Crime Patterns and Interventions

During the years of independence India saw the development of a modern criminal underworld in the large cities. The country has its Chicago-style gangsters, ruffians and teddy boys who kill, rob and intimidate in the same manner as their opposite numbers in the West do. However, the largest section of India's criminal activities is still committed by the most traditional and the most romantic type of criminals, the age-old terrors of the countryside, the dacoits.