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Paan Singh Tomar was born in the small village of Bhidosa, near Porsa, in a Hindu Rajput family, [4] living on banks of the Chambal River, in the erstwhile Tonwarghar district of the princely state of Gwalior, under the rule of the British Raj in India. Tomar's father was Eashwari Singh Tomar, whose younger brother Dayaram Singh Tomar went on ...
Village Bhidosa, near Porsa city of Tonwarghar District, Northern Gwalior Division, Gwalior State, British Indian Empire (now Morena District, Madhya Pradesh, India) Date of Death 1 October 1981 (Thursday)
- Subedar (Warrant Officer)
- Bengal Engineers Regiment, Roorkee
- Indian Army
- 1949-1977
- Wiki/Biography
- Family & Caste
- Career
- A Brilliant Runner Who Could Never Touch The Finish Line
- Land Dispute: Making of A Baaghi
- A Self-Proclaimed Baaghi
- A Dacoit Or Baaghi?
- Death
- Last Hours
- He Was A Casteist
Paan Singh Tomar was born on Friday, 1 January 1932 (age 49 years; at the time of death) in the small village of Bhidosa, near Porsa city of Tonwarghar District, Northern Gwalior Division, Gwalior State, British Indian Empire (now Morena District, Madhya Pradesh, India). He grew up near the ravines of Chambal in Morena, an area where death was no b...
Paan Singh Tomar belonged to a Kshatriya family of Morena. Open Parents & Siblings Paan Singh Tomar’s father was Eashwari Singh Tomar. Paan Singh’s paternal grandfather had two wives – the first one gave birth to Eashwari Singh, and the second one gave birth to Dayaram (uncle of Paan Singh). Dayaram had five sons, including Havaldar, Babbu, and Jan...
Military Paan Singh served the Indian Army as a subedar (Warrant Officer) under the Bengal Engineers Regiment at Roorkee. For his exceptional running ability, he was assigned to the sports wing in the Indian Army where he brought laurels both at the national and international platforms in the steeplechase. In 1977, he took premature retirement and ...
Paan Singh ran, ran, and ran throughout his life; be it the track field, the Asian Games, or the ravines of Chambal. Running was, in fact, in his gene, and he would often visit his village by running. Coaches still swear by Paan Singh Tomar’s rhythmic style of running, and his effortless leap over the hurdle and across the water obstacle in one sin...
The reason behind Paan Singh becoming a Baaghi was a two-and-a-half bigha of land beside the village stream, a piece of land that his elder brother, Maatadeen, a ganja-lover, had sold to his uncle Dayaram’s scion for a sum of Rs. 3, 000; as he was in urgent need of money. By the time Paan Singh Tomar returned to his native village; after his premat...
After killing Babbu Singh, Paan Singh declared himself a Baaghi, and the ravines of Chambal became the epicentre of his operations. He started kidnapping influential people for ransom. Legend has it that Paan Singh would often sign his ransom notes as – Whosoever came on his way, Paan Singh killed him. According to a close aide of Paan Singh, when ...
There’s a popular dialogue in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s eponymous film, Paan Singh Tomar (2012), in which Irrfan Khansays – However, Paan Singh Tomar was a dacoit in police records. For the retired police officer, Mahendra Pratap Singh Chauhan, who fired the fateful bullet that finally killed Paan Singh Tomar in the police encounter in 1981, Paan Singh wa...
On 1 October 1981, Paan Singh Tomar was killed at the age of 49 at Rathiankapura village in Madhya Pradesh. He was killed after a gunfight with a team of Madhya Pradesh Police led by the Circle Inspector Mahendra Pratap Singh Chauhan who was posted back then at Gohad police station (50 km north of Gwalior). Chauhan was later honoured with the Presi...
According to sources, the gunfight lasted for more than twelve hours in which Paan Singh was killed along with ten of his dreaded gang members. It was the afternoon of 1 October 1981, Paan Singh, who was on the visit of Rathiyankapura village where he stayed at the Sarpanch’s home, dressed in police khakis and white jogging sneakers was lying on a ...
The villagers of Rathiyankapura say that Paan Singh had not good terms with Dalits, and he would often misbehave with them. After he was killed, the upper caste Thakur community termed the village as the “village of traitors” Hindustan Times– Motiram Jatav, the informer who had given the tip-off to the police about Paan Singh’s hideout in Rathiyank...
The Gwalior State was a state within the Maratha Confederacy located in Central India. It was ruled by the House of Scindia (anglicized from Shinde), a Hindu Maratha dynasty. Following the dissolution of the Confederacy, it became part of the Central India Agency of the Indian Empire under British protection.
Mar 25, 2012 · “Like a mythical demigod emerging from the scarred earth, with his enormous stamina and steeplechase leap, Subedar Paan Singh Tomar of Bhidosa lives on in the Chambal, his strange legend as a champion athlete and dreaded killer within the same lifetime refusing to sleep” — recitation of a balladeer in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh.
Dec 17, 2020 · Gwalior-Chambal is home to the largest number of guns per capita in the country, and more than 100,000 of them were deposited with authorities across the region. Elections seem to be the only...
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