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The above story involves a herd of elephants, and usually they would be ruled by a matriarch elephant, an older experienced female, since single elephants and smaller groups often consists of bull elephants.
There are a number of videos on the net with violent or agressive elephants and it is not pretty; actually execution by elephant was used in ancient times and lasted in India until the coming of the British [Link]
The causes of elephant rage are discussed in a readable article in the Australian newspaper Sunday Morning Herald: [Link]
In India about 150-300 people get killed every year.
This [Link] states:
"It has even been reported in some areas where there is extreme population pressure and habitat shrinkage that elephant herds are becoming noticeably more aggressive towards man.
Crop raiding results in human deaths on a weekly basis"
This [Link] details the attack of elephants in different parts of Asia:
"Describing one elephant raid an Assamese official said, “The elephants entered the village and guzzled down locally-made rice beer kept in drums and then went on a rampage, killing three people, including one woman."
Maybe the Elephant habitats in India have been reduced, but from 1980 to 2007 the population of wild elephants increased from around 17000 to 28000 ([Link] go to page 10. According to [Link] there were around 30000 elephants in 2012. In [Link] one learns that there are about 4000 domesticated elephants in India, or 35000 elephants all together.
In India, the number of people killed by elephants has remained pretty stable compared to the increases in the elephant and human populations.
Here is a well written student report about the communications and social skills of elephants: [Link]
Besides the biology and psychology of elephants there is also the symbolic meaning in different cultures [Link] For India read fx [Link] or [Link] and the last link also has other general information about the Indian elephants.