💨 Abstract

Parbati Barua, India's first female mahout and phandi, is a 70-year-old who has lassoed 14 elephants and trained over 600 in captivity over nearly five decades. Born into a royal family in Assam, she grew up among mahouts and became the first female to use the obsolete 'mela sikar' method of elephant capture.

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