Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ193312

Peasants are extremely over-burdened with the heavy taxation; the luxury and livelihood of the state and its officials is totally depended on these peasantry class. The state machinery use maximum nuzzle or suppression to get the revenue and the share of state; which was very high and was unbearable for peasants to pay. After facing of all theseextremities, the common peasants arose and stand up rebellious and shows their opposition as well as dissent against the concealing nature of state. Banditry might be considered as a partof such protest which is against the state. Banditry can be defined as 'socially constructed category' and an instrument for 'social boundary formation' in which people from society came together as a last resort to support their subsistence . In the article ‘The Ideology of Banditry’ Carlo Giuseppe Rossetti highlighted about the origins of the ‘ideology of banditry’ in Sardinia, and cited that banditry came from the mechanism of negative reciprocity inbuilt in livestock-rustling. Slowly this group, called themselves as 'bandits' in the adjacent region of Sardinia and further, it also follows the suit of robbing the villages and trading routes in and around . The definition of bandits can also be taken from the archival documents which shows that bandit was all those who refused to abide by the law of the state, went around armed 'in bands' and might had 'the support of the local population’ to make sound against state and poverty. In simpler terms, Banditry can be defined as an act of robbery, which especially held this task by a group or with the help of gang or marauding band. Bandits were mainly involved in damage to enclosed property and in rustling of livestock belonging to elite gentry class of the various villages or looting the trade routes.