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"There he enrolled at Calcutta University sustaining himself with no visible source of income. At some point he convinced a wealthy businessman Seth Keshav Ram that he was a qualified private tutor and was hired to educate the Seths children. 5/17"  
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"It was here that the legend truly began. Natwarlal managed to con the businessman of XXX lakhs an astronomical amount in the 1930s. When the enraged Seth sent goons to recover the money Natwarlal turned the tables with breathtaking audacity. 6/17"  
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"The moment they left he walked into the Burrabazar police station and filed a complaint accusing the Seth of threatening his life and running black-market operations. The goons were caught the Seth was promptly arrested. 7/17"  
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"Later Natwarlal was eventually arrested for his fraud. It was December XX 1937. That day the legend of Natwarlal was officially born. Some say his earliest lessons in forgery came from his elder brother Ganga Ram with whom he shared a partnership of crime and confidence. 8/17"  
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"Along with a third accomplice the brothers formed a small but supremely skilled trio moving across the railway towns of eastern India. Together they refined their acts of deception into an art form. 9/17"  
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"Over the next decades Natwarlals exploits would pass into urban folklore. He was said to have sold the Taj Mahal the Red Fort and even the Rashtrapati Bhavan posing as a government auction office. Not once but multiple times. 13/17"  
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"Taj Mahal is back in the news again. This time not for love but for all the wrong reasons. But decades ago it made headlines for something far stranger. Because once a man almost sold the Taj Mahal. The unbelievable story of Natwarlal Indias greatest conman. Thread 1/17"  
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"By the 1980s he had become part of Indias cultural vocabulary a symbol of clever trickery. To call someone a Natwarlal was both an insult and a compliment. In his village locals spoke of him as a desi Robin Hood who cheated the rich and occasionally shared his loot. 12/17"  
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"The company was founded by a Turkish entrepreneur named M. Omari who set up operations near Beliaghata in Calcutta. He partnered with three young Bengali men M.L. Laik J.N. Sircar and A.H. Johur whose names appear on the lithograph print itself. 10/19"  
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"According to The Global Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco by Howard Cox the company was originally formed in 1909 under the managing directorship of M. Omari with a factory at Dum Dum just outside central Calcutta. 11/19"  
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