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At the age of 14, Barua caught her first wild elephant on which her father congratulated her. Since then, she has mastered the art of rounding up elephants and capturing them to be domesticated. Over the years, she has been called multiple times in the jungles, tea plantations and rural areas of West
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Parbarti was born as one of nine children to late
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Now not entitled to any of the tax-free regimes and money allotted to them, the line of Rajahs of
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