The terror of nineteenth century: prostitute Trailokyatarini/ ঊনবিংশ শতাব্দীর বাঙালির ত্রাস : রাঁড় ত্রৈলোক্যতারিণী

Abstract

The story of a daughter of a noble family of a remote village in Burdwan district who becomes a murderer. Her name is Trailokyatarini. The girl who caused a panic among the people of nineteenth century Calcutta. A woman who was murdering consecutively like a professional murderer, only in the lure of jewelry. Murder in lure of jewelry may be for the first time of Indian history. It was very surprising that in the nineteenth century Bengal amongst the reader of Bomkesh and Feluda there could be a serial killer. When we think about the serial killer, the first name that comes in our head is Jack the Ripper, an English professional killer. The terror of nineteenth century, who was in the apex of brutality by taking away homebody’s uterus, someone’s kidney after murdering. But if we look at the nineteenth century Bengal except London, we can see that eight years ago Barangana came in front of us, the first female in the history of Indian serial killer. To catch her, the police of that time had to do a lot of digging. Who killed continuously in the list of jewelry and money. To satisfy her own greed she makes herself engage in many criminal activities. As a result of this in 1884, 3^rd September she was sentenced to be hanged.