A disorganized, chattering band of monkeys or apes; used to describe any group of primates or, figuratively, any noisy, chaotic group of people.
From Hindi bandar (monkey, also used for port) plus log (people). The term was popularized in English by Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book' (1894), who used it to describe a fictional monkey tribe.
Kipling's 'Bandar-log' monkeys in The Jungle Book were supposed to represent the chaos of modern urban society — the author used the Hindi term to critique thoughtless crowds that follow trends without understanding them!
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