[5] She came to the limelight after the BBC created the documentary "Queen of the Elephants" based on her life, along with the companion book by Mark Shand.
[7] Parbarti was born as one of nine children to late Prakritish Barua, the last in line of the Rajahs of Gauripur.
Since childhood she had a keen sense of understanding and interest in elephants and spent much of her time in the jungles along with her father.
[5] Now not entitled to any of the tax-free regimes and money allotted to them, the line of Rajahs of Gauripur came to an end – both in terms of power and benefits.
Over the years, she has been called multiple times in the jungles, tea plantations and rural areas of West Bengal, Odisha and her native Assam to capture or take care of wild elephants.