Word: pir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hurs had asked was the release of their hero and chief, Pir of Pagaro, from a British jail. They had asked it as well as they knew how, couching their demands in terms of 1) robbery, 2) murder, 3) assorted violence, including the derailing of several express trains...
...Pir is only 34, a little pock-marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests...