Lootere Bandits of British India E02 Web Series
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00:00The beginning of the 19th century was a very turbulent case from a historical point of view.
00:27At that time, a large number of criminals were active.
00:32And among them, the most dangerous and dangerous group was the Thugs.
00:38The Thugs' group also worked in the same way as a regiment works under military rule.
00:49Just like the last 6 years, this year too, everyone has chosen Hirangiya with a strong will.
00:55Hirangiya was a famous Thug of his time.
00:59It is said that the Thugs have committed around 200,000 murders.
01:04The British government decided to kill the Thug.
01:08William Henry Sleeman was an example of a British officer.
01:12He was eager to reveal such mysteries.
01:17First of all, I have to find him.
01:19Who?
01:20Hirangiya.
01:25History is witness that every new system gives birth to new types of criminals.
01:42With every changing system, the conditions and ways of criminals change.
01:49In the 19th century British India, some Thugs were terrorized.
01:55They shook the immediate system from the roots.
01:59They made the lives of not only ordinary people, but also the British people miserable.
02:06Let's see the memorable stories of these notorious characters based on the available documents.
02:13Looters. Bandits of British India.
02:44Nothing can be done other than being looted.
02:49The Thugs were such genies who never regretted their innocent murders.
03:00In fact, they were proud of the fact that they had fulfilled the orders of their Mother Goddess.
03:14Thank you, God. Take care of yourself.
03:31In 1829, Sleeman got a special right.
03:37Sleeman had decided that he would eradicate the Thugs from his mind.
03:48His first target was the most notorious Thug leader of the Middle East, Hirangiya.
04:08Brother, I heard that something is going to happen this time.
04:13Don't let them catch you.
04:16This time, a new leader has come, Sleeman.
04:19And he has already arrested Ramana Singh's gang.
04:22That's why we should be more careful.
04:25Uncle, the work that we have not started from today is already decided.
04:33My grandfather was the king of Delhi.
04:39If he is not able to do anything, then what will these British do?
04:44But uncle, Sleeman has Kasari, police station, army. He has everything.
04:49Why are you worrying, Kaka?
04:53Call Sleeman.
04:56And come back to your senses soon.
05:00On one hand, Hirangiya was a man full of confidence.
05:05But on the other hand, he was also very lucky.
05:09Once he went to a village with some of his gang members.
05:17He tied his horse in a garden in that village.
05:23And he went inside the village to meet the village chief.
05:27After going a little far, he felt that there was some noise behind him.
05:32And the police had come to arrest his gang.
05:36He panicked.
05:40But in the meantime, the horse broke its reins.
05:46And ran in the direction where Hirangiya was present.
05:51Hirangiya grabbed the reins of his horse, jumped on it and sat down.
05:54And he escaped from the police.
06:01Sleeman kept thinking that how lucky Hirangiya is.
06:07And maybe such a lucky day will also come in his fate.
06:13When he will be able to catch Hirangiya.
06:17Yes, come in.
06:20Mr. Khan.
06:22What is the matter? You are so late.
06:24I am sorry, sir.
06:26But the matter is such that we cannot wait for the morning.
06:29What happened?
06:31We have got the news that in the nearby village of Hirangiya,
06:34there is a den of relatives.
06:36What?
06:38Hirangiya.
06:40Mr. Khan.
06:42Is the news confirmed?
06:44It is absolutely true, sir.
06:46He came here this morning.
06:47And along with him, his entire family is also there.
06:50As soon as I heard the news, I came running to you.
06:53Mr. Khan.
06:55We cannot let this opportunity pass by easily.
06:59You inform the police immediately.
07:01Sir, I have informed there.
07:03Amla has been told to be ready. But...
07:05But what?
07:07But sir, we have very few people.
07:09We don't know how many people are with Hirangiya.
07:11And what weapons do they have?
07:12Which weapons?
07:14Weapons.
07:16They fight with their brains.
07:18They win, Mr. Khan.
07:20They don't have weapons.
07:22As far as the truth is concerned, you know that.
07:26I know that.
07:28No one else knows that.
07:30Not even Hirangiya.
07:32Then order me, sir.
07:34Surround his house from all sides.
07:37Until then, don't make any noise.
07:39Until you don't believe that you are in a position to arrest him.
07:46And until there is no action from their side.
07:51No one will shoot.
07:54I want Hirangiya alive.
08:06We are very scared, brother.
08:07We can't have the real gun with us.
08:10You have the gun with you.
08:14Just keep your hand on the horse.
08:18If we keep our hand on the horse and wait for the order.
08:21By then, the horse must have been crushed.
08:24Order, sir.
08:26Will you bring the order?
08:28No, sir.
08:30Come on.
08:37Come on.
08:48He has run away.
08:50Look who is inside.
08:53No, leave me.
08:59Where is Hirangiya?
09:01Tell me, where is Hirangiya?
09:04They won't speak like this. Take them away.
09:05Come on.
09:07Leave us.
09:09Hirangiya was saved from being caught by the police.
09:15But Hirangiya's mother and his wife were caught by the police.
09:21Many of his gang members were caught.
09:25Suleiman had made many of them his informers.
09:29And through them, he got to know many things about Hirangiya.
09:37Sir, this is Hirangiya's mother, Jamuna.
09:39This is his wife, Champa.
09:42Why are you arresting us, sir?
09:44We couldn't have done anything wrong, sir.
09:48We have earned a lot of money.
09:51Why are you talking about lies and troubling us?
09:55Mother, maybe you don't know that your son is a fraud.
09:57He is a fraud.
09:59He is a robber. He is a murderer.
10:01He is a murderer.
10:03I know him very well.
10:06Sir, he is a fraud.
10:10And you are talking about murder.
10:13There must be some misunderstanding, sir.
10:16Who is Narvada's mother?
10:18Who are our ancestors?
10:20His family didn't know about the frauds.
10:23Even his wife and mother didn't know about them.
10:25They didn't know that he was a fraud.
10:28When he wasn't a fraud,
10:30he used to live like a responsible son,
10:33a loving husband and a normal citizen.
10:37Actually, it was very important for his safety.
10:40This kept him safe from the world.
10:44The amazing thing is that he used to live this double life very easily.
10:50Champa, do you know anything about Hirangiya?
10:55Mother is right, sir.
10:57Someone must have lied to you.
11:07You are misunderstanding, Champa.
11:12If Hirangiya is innocent,
11:17he will be caught.
11:22Tell me, where is Hirangiya?
11:25I don't know, sir.
11:27You are Raj.
11:29He is your soldier.
11:31Find him.
11:33I will find him sooner or later.
11:35But I won't leave you till then.
11:37Do whatever you want.
11:39How can I tell you when you don't know anything?
11:42Do you want me to defame you?
11:47Sir, Hirangiya is Jujjar.
11:49He wants to meet mother.
11:52Jujjar?
11:54Jujjar?
11:56Am I a fool?
11:58Why have you locked me up?
12:02Mother, your son Jujjar is also a thug.
12:04I have caught him with his gang.
12:06He will be hanged tomorrow.
12:15Mother, meet your son for the last time.
12:20Believe me, what I am saying is the truth.
12:30Your son and his gang are thugs.
12:37Thugs.
12:41If the thugs were smart, then Suleiman was no less.
12:45He started to follow the rule of punishment and punishment.
12:50And to catch Hirangiya, he made his family a pawn.
12:54Some small groups of thugs were being caught continuously.
12:59These groups were tried in Sagar.
13:03Because there were only Apsy, Smith and Suleiman there.
13:10They had special rights.
13:15One of their rights was that they can take any decision according to their wisdom.
13:28I have heard that Ramna Singh has been arrested.
13:33And he has confessed everything.
13:38And he has become a criminal to save his life.
13:44And we don't know where he is.
13:46Everyone is talking about him.
13:48Dadda, it will be difficult for us to stay here.
13:51We are very scared to go out.
13:54We don't know where to go.
13:57Last night, Suleiman went to our relative's house.
14:00He told us that if we don't go there, he will catch everyone.
14:05Our relative Dadda was so scared that he left the village.
14:11Suleiman did one more thing.
14:14He made a large group of thugs.
14:19And the benefit of this was that they believed that
14:23the entire family of thugs is connected to the work of a thug through a ancestral tradition.
14:31This was the information.
14:33So, a large number of people were arrested.
14:36And many innocent people were caught.
14:41Actually, the British believed that
14:46when a person becomes a thug, he is not only a thug for his goals,
14:57but he is also a thug for his generation.
15:00Since when are you saying this, Dadda?
15:02Let's go somewhere else.
15:03The matter will be settled in a year or six months.
15:06And Suleiman will also stop.
15:08What if he doesn't stop?
15:10Then we will stay somewhere else.
15:12Anyway, who is left with us except a few people?
15:15Everyone has run away.
15:17All of you go.
15:19Our relatives are risking their lives.
15:23We will not leave without taking our mother and wife from here.
15:27I don't know if Suleiman is treating them.
15:31He must have gone mad.
15:33How will you face Gulab Arun with a handkerchief and a handkerchief?
15:37Where the great kings are worried, we are with you.
15:41No matter what happens,
15:44we will not leave our family at the time of crisis.
15:48Now, we will do what is written in our fate.
15:54So, Dadda, are you not coming with us?
16:01All of you go.
16:03And take care of your loved ones.
16:05And call me if you need me.
16:09He has lost his mind.
16:11Suleiman is very clever.
16:13He knows everything.
16:17He has locked mother and daughter-in-law together.
16:20So that he can come to you under pressure.
16:23Why are you not getting trapped by him?
16:25I am not getting trapped.
16:27I am thinking of a way to break Suleiman's trap.
16:32We will stay here peacefully for a few days.
16:37Otherwise, we will surrender.
16:41He will never come back.
16:43Brother, there is no trustworthy person left here.
16:47Where will you go?
16:49Who will you stay with?
16:51I have a few trustworthy relatives.
16:53They have some time to spend with them.
16:57They will take care of the family.
16:59As you wish, brother.
17:01May the Goddess protect you.
17:29After the murder of the traitors,
17:33the wealth that they used to loot,
17:36they used that wealth
17:39to bribe the government employees.
17:44Even the foreigners used to bribe the government employees.
17:50But this time,
17:52his luck had betrayed him.
17:59How can you say that he is hiding in this area?
18:04Sir, I have been with him like a shadow.
18:08I know him very well.
18:10Then tell me, where is he?
18:12Sir, he is in Betwa river.
18:14He is in one of the five villages on the bank of that river.
18:18On what basis are you saying this?
18:20Sir, his closest relatives live there.
18:23And this is the best place for him to hide.
18:25Sir, his closest relatives
18:28take the information of the foreigners
18:31and give it to the foreigners.
18:33They swear that
18:35the foreigners can be found only there.
18:37Now, the British government
18:39had decided to kill the traitors.
18:42And they were ready to use any policy for this.
18:46Suleiman followed the policy of
18:48killing the traitors and the politicians.
18:50Whether it was mutual hatred, jealousy or caste discrimination,
18:53he used such tactics
18:55to prevent the traitors from opposing each other.
18:59And at the same time,
19:01he gave some traitors the greed
19:03that if they speak against the other traitors,
19:06their lives can be saved easily.
19:08So, you can tell me, which house is that?
19:11I can tell you, sir.
19:13But I also want to meet him.
19:17If the foreigners are caught, you will get everything.
19:19You will even get forgiveness.
19:21Okay, sir.
19:23Oh, my God!
19:25To arrest the foreigners,
19:29the police set out on a special mission that night.
19:33They reached the first village.
19:35They searched for the foreigners there.
19:38But they did not find the foreigners there.
19:40They went to the second village from there.
19:43They did not find the foreigners anywhere in the second village.
19:47They did not find anything in the third village either.
19:50Now, the fourth village in front of them was Kisrahi.
19:53The police officers were also thinking
19:56that if they do not find the foreigners in Kisrahi,
19:59then by the time they reach the fifth village,
20:02the sun will rise.
20:04And once the sun rises,
20:06then the foreigners will not be caught.
20:10So, they had only one goal in mind
20:14that if they find the foreigners in Kisrahi,
20:17then they can catch them.
20:23Let's go.
20:50Hello?
20:54Can you hear me?
20:59I am Rustam Khan, the police officer.
21:05Why are you laughing?
21:08What is a police officer's job?
21:12Tell me the truth. Who are you?
21:15Come out and see for yourself, foreigner.
21:18I am not alone.
21:20Dhanshuk is also with me.
21:23Come out.
21:32Your game is over, foreigner.
21:35Why are you trying to make Dhanshuk lose his mind?
21:38Surrender yourself to us.
21:43Dada.
21:45Dada.
21:47Come out, Dada.
21:49The police officer has surrounded the entire house, Dada.
21:53The foreign army has also come.
21:55Dada.
21:57Dada, save us.
21:59Come out, Dada.
22:01Dada, come out.
22:04Don't even try to run, foreigner.
22:07The police has surrounded your house.
22:18Don't even try to run.
22:23Don't even try to run.
22:33Because the foreigners were the leaders of the thugs,
22:36Suleiman had decided to take full advantage of it.
22:53You are the foreigner.
22:55Yes, I am the foreigner.
22:58Tell me, why did you arrest my mother and my wife?
23:02What is their fault?
23:05Why are you insulting them?
23:07Why are you harassing my family?
23:10Your fault is that you are a thug.
23:13You rob and kill the passengers.
23:15You have no human rights.
23:17You have no human rights.
23:19You have no human rights.
23:21You have no human rights.
23:23You have no human rights.
23:25I am not a thug.
23:28You are mistaken, sir.
23:31I am a specialist.
23:34I know everything.
23:36Then tell me, which farm have you been working in for the past 6 months?
23:39I had gone abroad for work on Eid.
23:42I was with my relatives.
23:44I was with them.
23:46All your relatives are in jail.
23:48That too in the case of a thug.
23:50Then what is my fault?
23:52You are trapping me.
23:54Sir, he is a thug.
23:56He will not listen to you.
24:07Idiot.
24:21Idiot.
24:51Firangiya's life will be spared.
24:53And she will get a chance to spend a peaceful life with her family.
24:58Now Firangiya started thinking in this direction.
25:01But the oath and vow taken in front of Goddess Bhavani started coming in her way.
25:06Till now, Sileman had also realized the faith of the thugs towards Goddess Bhavani.
25:12And Sileman was ready to take advantage of this.
25:16Sir.
25:17Goddess has given birth to me.
25:20Give birth to me with your sweat.
25:22Give me a handkerchief.
25:24So whatever happens, happens with the grace of Goddess.
25:27Goddess had written the death of the traveller with my hands.
25:32So I died.
25:34Now what is my fault in this, sir?
25:36I am going to fulfill the wish of Goddess.
25:39Oh.
25:41So there is no fault of yours in this.
25:45Not at all, sir.
25:47Goddess will order you to fulfill your wish.
25:50You will do it.
25:52Why?
25:53You are also bound by the oath of the government.
25:56Similarly, I am also bound by the oath of Goddess, sir.
25:59Goddess always helps me.
26:01But your Goddess is helping you so much.
26:06Then why did you get caught?
26:10Why did you get hanged?
26:14That was a mistake, sir.
26:17I must have insulted the Goddess.
26:19So according to you, someone has insulted the Goddess.
26:22That's why Goddess is angry and wants to punish you.
26:26It seems like that, sir.
26:28So you don't know whether Goddess wants to punish you or not.
26:32Everything will be in the hands of Goddess, sir.
26:35Without her will, you can't even take a leaf.
26:40Right.
26:42So that Goddess who was with you is now with us.
26:47And she wants us to catch you and punish you.
26:59Sleeman was a great scholar of human psychology.
27:04He understood the creation of religions very well.
27:12He knew that the thugs had complete faith in Goddess Bhavani.
27:19But he used this faith against the thugs in his favour.
27:29He told them that he was able to successfully arrest the thugs.
27:35I have caught all of you.
27:37This means that Goddess Bhavani is with me.
27:43And she wants us to arrest the thugs and kill them.
27:49The thugs accepted this logic.
27:54And through this logic, Sleeman was able to convince the thugs
28:01and present them in the courts as government witnesses.
28:07And the thugs were ready to become the accused.
28:13They thought that they were following Goddess Bhavani's orders.
28:18Tell me, sir.
28:20What is the matter?
28:21Is there any problem?
28:23There is a lot of problem, sir.
28:26At night, Goddess Bhavani comes in my dreams.
28:29She cuts my head with a dagger and drinks my blood.
28:35There is a lot of problem, sir.
28:37I cannot sleep at night.
28:40I am confessing all my sins.
28:44I am confessing all my sins.
28:46I am confessing all my sins.
28:48This is a very good thing, Firangya.
28:52Sit down.
28:54Sit down.
28:56Sit down.
29:01But, Firangya, accepting the truth will not solve the problem.
29:08You will have to give evidence.
29:10I will give all the evidence.
29:13I will give the true evidence of every crime.
29:17Think about it.
29:19What is there to think about?
29:22I will do whatever Goddess Bhavani wants me to do.
29:31I have a request.
29:35Release my mother and my wife from the jail.
29:38They did nothing.
29:40It is not their fault.
29:42Whatever they did was my fault.
29:47And now, I am ready to confess everything.
29:51Firangya told Suleiman to come to Silhoda village with her.
29:57I want to give you some solid evidence there.
30:02Suleiman left for Silhoda village with his henchmen, the police and Tambu.
30:14It was getting dark as we reached Silhoda village.
30:18So, Tambu was set up there at night.
30:24Suleiman and his henchmen spent the night there.
30:29In the morning, Firangya came to Suleiman.
30:34He said, sir, give the order to dig the place where you are standing.
30:40Suleiman looked at him with amazement and then gave the order.
30:58There were some skulls there who were murdered 2-3 years ago.
31:06There were some skulls who were buried there 10-12 years ago.
31:14Suleiman was stunned to see those skulls.
31:28Suleiman was stunned to see those skulls.
31:32Suleiman realized that no matter how cruel the thug is, he is firm in his faith.
31:44He is firm in his promise.
31:47And when he fulfills his promise, he helps others.
31:54Now, Suleiman was on the path of his success.
32:02According to some historians and scholars, Firangya was given more fame than needed.
32:08The only reason why Firangya was caught was that Suleiman got a lot of publicity from it.
32:14And the British gave him funds to catch the thugs.
32:17These things may seem surprising because the only source of information is Suleiman's own books.
32:27Apart from that, we don't have any information about the world of thugs.
32:33You have told us everything about yourself, Firangya.
32:37Now tell us something about others too.
32:41I have told you what I did.
32:43How can I know about others' work?
32:46You know everything, Firangya.
32:49You just have to keep your mouth shut.
32:53I don't have the stars in my mouth.
32:55They are in my destiny, sir.
32:59And you have the keys to the stars.
33:02I am suffocating in the darkness of this dungeon.
33:06I feel like breathing in the open air.
33:10I want to go back home.
33:12I want to go back home.
33:15It is possible.
33:19But when we get some information,
33:25some big thugs will be caught.
33:29Every year in the month of Bhagwan,
33:32a big group travels from here to Jaipur.
33:35They go there and divide into two parts and move ahead.
33:38One part goes to West Gujarat.
33:40And the other part goes to South India.
33:43If the middle part is divided,
33:46all the thugs will be caught together.
33:50Why?
33:52Because of Firangya's statement,
33:55many thugs were caught.
34:00Because of Firangya's service,
34:03he was pardoned for the death penalty.
34:06The rest of the thugs were tried.
34:08They were punished.
34:11The Nizamat court also appealed against them.
34:14The Nizamat court also imposed these punishments.
34:18You have been sentenced to death
34:22for the crime of thuggery.
34:26Tomorrow morning,
34:28you will be imprisoned in Sagar jail.
34:33Sir, they are trapping us.
34:35Sir, we are farmers.
34:36We haven't done anything.
34:38Sir, you can ask our villagers.
34:40Sir, my father died when I was a kid.
34:42We are starving.
34:44God is witness.
34:46My ancestors were neither thugs nor us.
34:49Sir, sir, sir.
34:51I was a servant since childhood.
34:53How can I be a thug?
34:55Don't bury my body.
34:57Burn it.
34:59Give my body to my family.
35:01Do it.
35:03Do whatever you want now.
35:04But remember,
35:06we will avenge this in our next births.
35:09Usually, these thugs are considered as cruel and innocent killers.
35:13But some of these thugs were such
35:16that they kept themselves innocent till their last breath.
35:19Actually, there is no solid evidence of the information
35:23given by these thugs.
35:26Some of these thugs
35:29used their information
35:31to cause mutual suffering.
35:34But the British officers
35:36ignored this aspect.
35:38Because the more they arrested,
35:41the more they proved their worthiness.
36:05For the sake of Him,
36:07we are ready to give up our lives.
36:09Goddess will take revenge on us.
36:11We will not give up.
36:13She will shower us with a lot of blood.
36:16Hail Goddess Kali!
36:19Hail Goddess Bhavani!
36:21Hail Goddess Bhavani!
36:23Hail Goddess Bhavani!
36:25Hail Goddess Bhavani!
36:34In the year 1840, the Thugs were completely wiped out.
36:52Approximately 4,000 Thugs were arrested.
36:56Of those, 500 Thugs were hanged.
37:01Approximately 1,000 Thugs were sent to the black water.
37:05Approximately the same number of Thugs were sentenced to life imprisonment.
37:10There were other Thugs who were given small, big, different kinds of punishments.
37:16The number of Thugs had become so large that it was not possible to keep them in the jail of Sagar.
37:26Two more jails were set up in the present jail of Sagar.
37:31The thing to think about is that 40,000 murders in a year and approximately 20 lakh murders in 500 years.
37:40Where did this figure come from?
37:42Did they find so many corpses? No.
37:45Did they record so many testimonies? No.
37:50The number of Thugs who were arrested was less than 5,000.
37:56So the question arises, where is the proof of the Thug empire that had spread throughout India for 500 years?
38:06The Thugs who were arrested were pardoned, but they were not completely freed.
38:16In fact, Sreemen had set up an open jail for them.
38:21The open jail meant that they could live there with their families.
38:31Sreemen thought that if they did not have any alternative means of survival, they would go back to their original business.
38:49So, in 1846, in Jabalpur, Sreemen set up the Dastkari Vidyalaya with Charles Brown.
39:02The meaning of Dastkari Vidyalaya was that the Thugs and their families would learn to weave, make bricks, and weave clothes.
39:15They were taught all kinds of useful things so that they could earn a living through this.
39:22One of the reasons why the Thugs were portrayed by the British was that the British were adopting the policy of blowing up and ruling over the common people.
39:39In this way, they were also showing their contribution and strength.
39:44In fact, this was their excuse.
39:46But the reality was that their ambition to expand their empire further increased the Thugs' profession.
39:57There is a large room in the medical school of Edinburgh University.
40:04During the last 200 years, skulls brought from different parts of the world have been collected in this room.
40:15Among these skulls, 7 skulls sent from India in 1833 are also included.
40:27Along with these skulls, the names of the people whose skulls these skulls belong to have been written.
40:36But apart from the names, one more thing is mentioned there, and that is the Thugs.
40:44In this way, the existence of the Thugs has been erased from the world.
40:50Apart from that, they keep fluttering in the pages of history.
40:55But if their mark is still there, then they are the 7 skulls of the Thugs kept in the medical school of Edinburgh.
41:09Even today, historians are busy destroying the world of the Thugs.
41:14But even today, this is as mysterious as it was then.
41:54.