>Marathas looted Bengal, Odisha
>And Bihar so badly that they made the Islamic invaders look like amateurs.

>There's a famous lullaby in Bengal that equates Maratha 'Bargis' with demons.

>The East remembers their atrocities.

> "Khoka ghumolo, para juralo, bargi elo deshe..."

(The baby sleeps, the neighborhood is quiet, but the Bargis have entered our land...)

> Gangaram and the Dutch East India Company records suggest that hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed.

>Some estimates by historians suggest the number could be as high as 400,000 deaths in Bengal alone over a decade.

> the Bargis looted the houses of wealthy merchants (like the Jagat Seths) and any temple that held significant gold.

https://x.com/watch_mann/status/2025542813178609848

1. Poem depecting BARGIS atrocities