1. _Introductory notice._
2. _The Badhak dacoits._
3. _Instances of dacoities._
4. _Further instances of dacoities._
5. _Disguise of religious mendicants._
6. _Countenance and support of landowners._
7. _Pride in their profession._
8. _Caste rules and admission of outsiders._
9. _Religion. Offerings to ancestors._
10. _The wounded haunted by spirits._
11. _Pious funeral observances._
12. _Taking the omens._
13. _Suppression of dacoity._
14. _The Badhaks or Baoris at the present time._
15. _Lizard-hunting._
16. _Social observances._
17. _Criminal practices._