Pindarees or Pindaris, a set of freebooters who at the beginning of the present century ravaged Central India and were the terror of the districts, but who under the governor-generalship of Hastings were driven to bay and crushed in 1817.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pindar, Peter * Pindus, Mount