<P> Nasir's narration describes the history and nature of Wasseypur . During the British Raj, Wasseypur and Dhanbad were located in the Bengal region . After India gained its independence in 1947, they were carved out of Bengal and redistricted into the state of Bihar in 1956 . In 2000, Wasseypur and Dhanbad were redistricted for a second time into the newly formed state of Jharkhand where they remain . The village has been historically dominated by the Qureshi Muslims, a sub-caste of animal butchers who are feared by the non-Qureshi Muslims living there and Dhanbad by extension . </P> <P> During British colonial rule, the British had seized the farm lands of Dhanbad for coal which began the business of coal mining in Dhanbad . The region was a hotbed of the local faceless dacoit Sultana Qureshi who robbed British trains in the night and thus held some patriotic value for the locals . </P> <P> Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat), a Pathan, takes advantage of the mysteriousness of the faceless dacoit Sultana, a Qureshi, by impersonating his identity to rob British ferry trains . The Qureshi clans eventually find out and order the banishment of Shahid Khan and his family from Wasseypur . They settle down in Dhanbad where Shahid begins work as a labourer in a coal mine . He is unable to be at his wife's side during childbirth, and she dies . The enraged Shahid kills the coal mine's muscleman who had denied him leave on that day . In 1947, independent India begins to assert its authority over itself . The British coal mines are sold to Indian industrialists and Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia) receives a few coal mines in the Dhanbad region . He hires Shahid Khan as the new muscleman of one of the coal mines . Shahid terrorises the local population to seize their lands and extract compliance . </P> <P> On a rainy day, Ramadhir Singh overhears Shahid's ambitions of taking over the coal mines from him . Singh tricks Shahid into traveling to Varanasi for business but instead has him murdered by an assassin named Yadav Ji (Harish Khanna). Nasir (Piyush Mishra), Shahid's cousin, finds Ramadhir's umbrella with his initials near the door and concludes that Ramadhir eavesdropped on their conversation . He flees from the house with Shahid's son Sardar in the nick of time as Ehsaan Qureshi (Vipin Sharma), another associate of Ramadhir Singh and a member of the Wasseypur Qureshi clan, shows up to kill them but is too late . An unsuccessful Ehsaan lies to Singh that Shahid's family has been murdered, burnt, and buried . Under the care of Nasir, Sardar grows up along with Nasir's nephew Asgar (Jameel Khan). Sardar learns the truth about his father's death, upon which he shaves his head and vows not to grow his hair until he has avenged his father's murder . </P>

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