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Assam's 'Elephant Girl' Parbati Barua shatters gender stereotypes in wildlife conservation
The Statesman Siliguri
|March 09, 2025
Known as "Elephant Girl" (Hasti Kanya) in Assam, 67-year-old Parbati Barua is India's first woman mahout (elephant keeper). She was conferred the Padma Shri last year for her pioneering work in wildlife conservation and for breaking gender barriers in a field traditionally dominated by men.
Born into the Gauripur royal family in the Goalpara district of Assam, Barua and her father Prakritish Barua caught their first elephant together when Barua was 14 years old in the Kachugaon woods of Kokrajhar district. The last of the Rajas of Gauripur was Prakritish Barua.
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