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The killing began with the men shot dead outside the houses. Some of them were killed while they were attempting to flee. The killers then entered the house and women members of the community were caught, their heads were put upon an improvised chopping block and were beheaded with local made axes.
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The action of
Rajputs was a result of the notification issued by "Krantikari Kisan Committee", a communist organisation dominated by backward castes which banned the sale of hundreds of acre of land belonging to "Mahant", which was not liked by the Rajputs. A landlord Babu Lootan Singh bought the
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Till May 1987, Baghaura-Dalelchak was home to over 200 people: Rajputs, Yadavs, Kumhars (potters), Pasis (toddy tappers) and
Ravidases (cobblers). The day the Maoists shot and hacked to death almost all the Rajputs present – from an 80-year-old woman to an 18-month-old baby – all the others fled
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Bindeshwari Dubey paid a visit to the village, nothing more was done to ward off the fears from the mind of the affected families and to end the cause of disputes which had the potential to bring more cases of inter-caste conflicts in the future between the two communities. According to another
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According to the media reports framed by the account of spectators, a band of 300–400 armed man rushed towards the village in the darkness of night. It was also witnessed that, those who were in feud with the
Rajputs of the village over the land were pointing towards the houses to be attacked.
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people of the village where in long drawn conflict with the
Rajputs over the control of a large area of government land. In these conflicts several small scale killings and counter killings had occurred in the past. The notable among them was the 'massacre of Anjan village', where
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of women in front of their family members, their male relatives. The writers say that women of all ages including those above 60 years were raped by the attackers. But the other sources only describe brutal killings of men, women and children with no mention of rape.
382:"Bus ek sarkari naukri mili hai anukampa ke adhar par jis se pariwar chal raha hai, Bhagwan ne jo mere sath kiya wo kisi ke sath na kare (What I have got is a government job on compassionate ground. What God has done to me, He should not do it with others)," he said.
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and other backward caste descended upon the village of
Dalelchak-Baghaura, a Rajput hamlet. The two writers have detailed as to how men, women and children were all pulled out from their beds and their hands and feet were tied to ropes. This was followed by the
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After the mass killing took place, the attackers lighted all the houses belonging to
Rajputs and the corpse were thrown into the fire emerging out of the burning houses. There were houses of other castes too but none came to help the victims.
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of the worst kind prevailed, in which some of the affluent houses had control over vast swathes of land while others lacked even the basic necessities like proper clothes on their body as described in a report of
390:"Bhagwan ne sab chin liya, ab pata nahi ki gaon mein pahle ki tarah khusian aayengi bhi ya nahi (God has snatched what we had. Whether the village would witness prosperity again or not who knows)," she said.
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The killings at "Parasdih" and revenge killing of 11 Rajputs at "Darmia" village also served as a propellent to this incident which took place in
Dalelchak-Bhagaura. The Bihar was ruled at this time by
355:"The Yadavs want us to be finished, so that they can take our land cheaply." With the Koel canal coming up right alongside Baghaura, land in the village would soon have been precious beyond words.
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According to the same report, Vinay was not the only person to bear this pain. When TOI reached the village, Chandra Devi (80) was present in the village. She still remembers the gory scene.
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As a result of this ghastly incident, a total of 40 Rajput families fled the village. According to Vinay Singh, a native of village who survived the carnage and owned "
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report covered the ground situation of the village in aftermath of the carnage as well as the failure of government to deal with the plight of victims. Though
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were killed. However the exact figure of casualties is disputed with some sources claiming death tolls to be as high as 56.
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men and raped their women with impunity. As a response to this killing and humiliation, nearly 700 armed men belonging to
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government and the tug of war between "upper castes" and backwards for political and economic dominance was on peak.
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was a caste based carnage that took place in 1987 in the Aurangabad district of
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land but ended up putting a challenge to the armed cadres of MCC dominated by
783:"ये है बड़े नरसंहार का पूर्व आरोपी, अब चाहता है मौत की पनाह, मांग रहा है मदद"
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645:Terrorism, Naxalism & Insurgency in India
548:"29-years-on-here-people-still-fear-to-tread"
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969:Attacks on buildings and structures in India
974:Attacks on buildings and structures in 1987
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894:Communist Party of India (Maoist) attacks
506:Farzand Ahmed, T.N Ninan (30 June 1987).
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964:Building and structure fires in India
648:. K.K. Publications. pp. 217–218
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889:Terrorist incidents in India in 1987
450:serving eleven month imprisonment.
767:. 15 December 1992. Archived from
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869:20th-century mass murder in India
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899:Caste-related violence in Bihar
673:. APH Publishing. p. 221.
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934:Stabbing attacks in the 1980s
546:Kumar, Nikhil (22 May 2016).
670:Terrorism, World Under Siege
342:The intelligence network at
944:Deaths by stabbing in India
919:1987 mass shootings in Asia
218:Dalelchak-Bhagaura massacre
40:Dalelchak-Bhagaura massacre
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939:Deaths by firearm in India
909:Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
904:Aurangabad district, Bihar
93:Aurangabad district, Bihar
81:Dalelchak-Bhagaura (Bihar)
817:. SAGE Publishing India.
740:Archive.indianexpress.com
582:Srivastava, Arun (2015).
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642:Dr. Ashok Kumar (2022).
460:Laxmanpur Bathe massacre
395:Atrocities against women
929:Mass stabbings in India
924:Mass shootings in India
864:May 1987 events in Asia
407:landlords had killed 7
271:Maoist Communist Centre
264:and few landlords. The
202:Maoist Communist Centre
27:Infobox civilian attack
811:Santosh Singh (2020).
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47:caste related violence
32:considered for merging
854:1987 murders in India
588:. Prabhat Prakashan.
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771:on 27 February 2021.
667:S. K. Ghosh (1995).
378:victim Vinay Singh:
959:1980s fires in Asia
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979:Gang rape in India
879:Massacres in India
553:The Times of India
75:Dalelchak-Bhagaura
51:massacres in Bihar
984:Rape in the 1980s
859:Massacres in 1987
736:"A-ghost-village"
560:on 6 January 2021
520:on 6 January 2021
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251:India Today
164:, possible
157:Attack type
148:27 May 1987
141:27 May 1987
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848:Categories
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476:References
445:Conviction
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316:Capitalism
235:Background
166:Gang Rapes
830:4 January
367:Later, a
320:Feudalism
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208:Convicted
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162:massacre
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180:Deaths
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409:Yadav
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