How to pronounce“dacoit”in English
The Chambal river is an absolutely incredible place.
It's a place that's famous to a lot of you who know about the bandits, the dacoits who used to work up there. And there still are quite a few around.
But Poolan Devi was one. Which actually Shekhar Kapur made an incredible movie, "The Bandit Queen," which I urge you to see.
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Definitions of “dacoit”
A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
“1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok […] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.”
To commit armed robbery.
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