{"slides": [{"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/01-DSC00301-Crop-BW-Captain_Bhau-Tile.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/01-DSC00301-Crop-BW-Captain_Bhau-Tile.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Ramchandra\nSripati Lad, a soldier of the Toofan Sena, was called \u2018Captain Bhau\u2019. <i>Bhau</i> means brother or elder brother. On June 7,\n1943, he and G.D. Bapu Lad led a daring raid on a Pune-Miraj train carrying the salaries\nof officials of the British Raj.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/01-DSC00301-Crop-BW-Captain_Bhau-Tile.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/01-DSC00407Crop-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/01-DSC00407Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Toofan Sena was the armed wing of <i>prati sarkar</i>, the \u2018provisional\u2019 government fighting the British in Satara. This photo is of a Toofan Sena parade in circa 1943.<br/></p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/01-DSC00407Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/02-DSC00255-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/02-DSC00255-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Ramchandra Sripati Lad \u2013 Captain Bhau \u2013 in Shenoli village of Satara district, Maharashtra.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/02-DSC00255-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/03-DSC00313-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/03-DSC00313-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Captain Bhau was 94 years old when he met the PARI team at Shenoli in 2016.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/03-DSC00313-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/04-DSC00301-Crop-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/04-DSC00301-Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Captain Bhau at the very spot in Shenoli where he and Bapu Lad had raided the British payroll train.<br/></p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/04-DSC00301-Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/05-Captain-Bhau-95--of-the-Whirlwind-Army-shows-us-the-spot-where-he-attac.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/05-Captain-Bhau-95--of-the-Whirlwind-Army-sho.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>\u2018We stopped the train by piling up rocks on the tracks \u2013 right here where you are now standing. Then we piled up boulders behind it, so the train could not retreat.\u2019</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/05-Captain-Bhau-95--of-the-Whirlwind-Army-sho.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/06-DSC00290-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/06-DSC00290-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>\u2018It is unfair to say we looted the train,\u2019 says Captain Bhau. \u2018It was money stolen by the British rulers from the Indian people that we took back.\u2019</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/06-DSC00290-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/07-DSC00302-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/07-DSC00302-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Captain Bhau was the operational head of the <i>prati sarkar</i> that held its own in Satara against the British government between 1943 and 1946.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/07-DSC00302-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/08-DSC00318-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/08-DSC00318-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>The money from the British train did not go to any individual\u2019s pocket but to the <i>prati sarkar</i>, he told PARI. \u2018We gave that money to the needy and poor.\u2019 </p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/08-DSC00318-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/09-DSC00320-Horizontal-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/09-DSC00320-Horizontal-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Train tracks in Shenoli where the Toofan Sena attacked the train.\u00a0</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/09-DSC00320-Horizontal-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/10-DSC00321-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/10-DSC00321-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>The Toofan Sena carried off Rs. 19,175 from the payroll train \u2013 enough to buy 60,000 kilos of rice in 1943.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/10-DSC00321-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/11-DSC00306-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/11-DSC00306-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Captain Bhau with P. Sainath in Shenoli in 2016.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/11-DSC00306-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/12-DSC00325-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/12-DSC00325-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Captain Bhau at his home.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/12-DSC00325-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/13-DSC00367-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/13-DSC00367-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>After 1947, Captain Bhau along with Bapu Lad joined the Peasants and Workers Party. In 2017, at age 95, he participated in a farmers\u2019 protest in Kundal. \u2018Then also we fought for farmers and workers. Now also it is for farmers and workers\u2019. </p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/13-DSC00367-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/14-DSC00375-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/14-DSC00375-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Partners of over 70 years, Kalpana Lad and Captain Bhau seen here with a young relative.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/14-DSC00375-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/15-DSC00380-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/15-DSC00380-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Kalpana Lad, Captain Bhau\u2019s wife, making a scathing point about the old gentleman\u2019s complete absence from any work in the raising of their family (2016).</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/15-DSC00380-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/16-DSC00361-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/16-DSC00361-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>When her husband was in jail, Kalpana Lad managed everything, looking after their five children. Captain Bhau and she had 13 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.\u00a0</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/16-DSC00361-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/17-DSC00354-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/17-DSC00354-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>\u2018To this day the man doesn\u2019t know where his family\u2019s farm land is located. I, a lone woman, took care of the children, the household, the fields,\u2019 said Kalpana<i>tai</i>.\u00a0</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/17-DSC00354-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/18-DSC00363-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/18-DSC00363-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Kalpana<i>tai</i> passed away a couple of years before Captain Bhau.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/18-DSC00363-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/19-DSC00335-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/19-DSC00335-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>A collection of awards and medals in Captain Bhau\u2019s house.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/19-DSC00335-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/20-DSC00392-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/20-DSC00392-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>The pillar in Kundal listing the names of freedom fighters of Satara and Sangli, including the Captain\u2019s.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/20-DSC00392-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/21-DSC00340-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/21-DSC00340-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Old photos of members of the 1942 <i>prati sarkar</i>, with G.D. Bapu Lad at the centre.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/21-DSC00340-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/22-DSC00407-Crop-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/22-DSC00407-Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Old photos of Toofan Sena and its leaders: Captain Bhau (left) and Babruvahan Jadhav.\u00a0</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/22-DSC00407-Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/23-DSC00398-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/23-DSC00398-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>A sketch depicting Captain Bhau, made sometime around 1947.\u00a0</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/23-DSC00398-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/24-DSC00418-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/24-DSC00418-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>A coloured version of Captain Bhau\u2019s photo from 1942.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/24-DSC00418-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Captain Bhau", "src": "/media/original_images/25-20210622_140433-Crop-Captain_Bhau.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/25-20210622_140433-Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Captain Bhau wearing the Nehru jacket and holding the hand stick gifted by PARI on his birthday in 2021. He died on February 5, 2022.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>Captain Bhau</p>", "url": "/pa/albums/captain-bhau/", "slide_photographer": [], "image_captured_date": "28 Nov,2022", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/25-20210622_140433-Crop-Captain_Bhau.height-876.jpg\" />"}], "authors": []}

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