in India.The last major dacoit gang in Chambal surrendered in 1988. Phoolan Devi surrendered in 1983 and was later elected to Parliament twice. She was assassinated in 2001.The names of most people who lived in the beehad during the dacoit era are not in any history book.The signal marks on the ravine walls are real. What they mean is not publicly documented.Bheema Das is fictional. The knowledge he carries is not.◆ ◆ ◆