The year was 1901, when Chowdhury Akshay Narayan Sarangi, the zamindar of Rohinigarh (Garh Estate), passed away. His only son, Chowdhuri Lakshmi Narayan Sarangi, succeeded him as the next zamindar.
By around 1903, Lakshmi Narayan Babu purchased zamindari rights over sixteen villages—including Tarrui, part of the Chaur Pargana of Dantan(a province in Bengal , India) —from the Raja of Narajol (Gopgarh). In 1905, he constructed an estate office (kachari) building in Tarrui village. In 1921, he commissioned the construction of a Shiva temple and a Shitala temple in the same village.
Around 1923, while attending to estate matters, he visited the kachari house for two days, accompanied by four palanquin bearers, some lathiyals (armed guards), and paiks (retainers).
On the very night of his arrival, approximately 200 to 300 people surrounded the kachari building with the intention of looting it. Consequently, the manager, staff, lathiyals, paiks, and the zamindar himself were effectively held captive.
Although the group was essentially a band of dacoits, many were tenants from Tarrui village itself. Witnessing such treachery from those he had sought to benefit left him deeply angered and disappointed. Yet at that moment he was powerless to act.
Even as morning came, the mob maintained its siege. On the second evening, however, one of his trusted lathiyals, Bhaj Bera, managed to slip out through the back door, scale the wall, and escape. He quickly procured a horse and rode at speed to the kachari at Keshiari.
(It should be noted that Gaganeshwar Pargana—including Keshiari, Agarapara, Napo, and nine other villages—was also under Lakshinarayan Babu’s control.)
Finding too few lathiyals at Keshiari to mount an immediate rescue, Bhaj Bera rode on to Rohini. Upon receiving word of the zamindar’s captivity, approximately 500 lathiyals, paiks, and chowkidars from Rohini, Andhari, Akashpura, and 8–10 nearby villages immediately mobilized and set out for Tarrui.
They arrived at approximately 2 a.m. to find most of the besiegers asleep. Taking advantage of this, the zamindar’s forces launched a surprise assault. Many of the attackers were injured or captured.
Ordinarily a man of gentle, simple, and calm disposition, the zamindar was so incensed by the betrayal of his tenants that he ordered the destruction of nearly all houses in the village, sparing only a few. By dawn, most of the village lay in ruins.
However, an investigation the next day revealed that although some villagers had been complicit, the majority had acted out of fear. Realizing this, he ordered the complete reconstruction of the village’s houses within the following month.
Nonetheless, he never again personally visited the village. Thereafter, revenue collection from Tarrui was handled through his manager.
In later years, he continued to contribute to the village’s development by commissioning ponds and roads. Honoring his wishes, after his death, the estate’s sebait (trustee)—his third daughter, Srimati Shailabala Devi—founded a high school in the village in 1962 (now known as Tarrui Sri Ramakrishna Vidyabhaban) and donated land for a health centre .
