Word: dacoits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Synthetic Miracle. Late last month, as Bhave turned over to police a batch of 20 dacoits, emotional India went on a jag: bar associations pledged to supply defense counsel without charge, and Bhave's womenfolk garlanded the prisoners with tinsel like so many heroes. Even India's President Prasad sent Bhave a message of congratulations: "The whole nation looks with hope and admiration at the manner in which you have been able to arouse better instincts." In all the hullabaloo, no one paid much attention to the fact that Lakhan Singh, No. 1 dacoit on the still...