I, Phoolan Devi

Author: Phoolan Devi
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 9780751519648
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
Enduring cruel poverty and degradation, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains. In a three-year campaign which rocked the government, she delivered justice to rape victims and stole from the rich to give to the poor, before negotiating surrender on her own terms. Throughout her years of imprisonment without trial Phoolan Devi remained a beacon of hope for the poor and downtrodden, and in 1996, admist both popular support and media controversy, she was elected to the Indian Parliament. For over a decade journalists, biographers and film-makers have found the power and scope of Phoolan Devi's myth irresistible. Now finally she tells the story of her life through her eyes and in her own voice.

India's Bandit Queen

Author: Mala Sen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description

Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen

Author: Claire Fauvel
Publisher: Nbm Comics Biographies
ISBN: 9781681122519
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Phoolan Devi rebelled against the ancient caste rules of India, her country, resulting in her becoming a Robin Hood type bandit. Essentially sold at the age of 11 to become a wife for a much older man, she ran away when he raped her. From that point on, there were few choices for her but to join a roaming gang of bandits, her ambition leading her to become their rebel chief. Ultimately, she became a strong voice for change as a representative in the nascent Indian parliament. A story of courage and unbending determination in front of centuries of established inequities in the classic Indian caste system.

Outlaw

Author: Roy Moxham
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 140708013X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
In June 1992, author Roy Moxham did a very strange thing: he wrote to a bandit in an Indian jail. Phoolan Devi was the controversial and charismatic 'Bandit Queen' hailed as a modern-day Robin Hood in the villages surrounding Delhi. In revenge for her own gang rape, her followers killed 20 high-caste Indians, which led to her surrender and imprisonment. Struck by her story and appalled by her plight, Roy Moxham helped Phoolan Devi obtain justice, offered her encouragement when she became an MP in India on her release, and travelled with her for several years before she was finally gunned down in 2001. Based on the diaries that documented their extraordinary friendship, Moxham offers a fascinating portrait of a remarkable woman and reveals the hidden face of India.

The Bandit Queen of India

Author: Phoolan Devi
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781592286416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When trust fund baby-turned-waitress Allie and her friends accidentally open a Door to Hell in the basement of Sally's Diner, they don't realize the havoc it will wreak on their Brooklyn neighborhood. Of course, the upside to murder-happy demons coming through the Door all the time is that Allie gets her own sexy and mysterious demon hunter: the dark-eyed, leather-clad, Stetson-wearing Ryan.Ryan teaches Allie everything he knows about fighting the creatures of the underworld-but refuses to give in to the sexual tension that simmers between them. Allie has almost given up on taking her relationship with Ryan to the next level when there's a surge in demonic activity... and the Door disappears.Now Allie and Ryan have to travel through Hell, literally, to try to stop Hell from taking over the Earth. They may not survive the trip, but Allie is about to discover something very important: Mortal peril is a total turn-on.

Global Icons

Author: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822350165
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Author: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330371261
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 515

Book Description

Death by Fire

Author: Mala Sen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813531021
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Before a crowd of several thousand people, mostly men, a young woman dressed in her bridal finery was burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre. The apparent revival of an ancient tradition opened old wounds in Indian society and focused world attention on the status and treatment of women in modern India.".

The Scandal of the State

Author: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330486
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.

Jail Diary : Tihar Se Kabul-Kandhar Tak

Author: Sher Singh Rana
Publisher: HarperHindi
ISBN: 9789350293287
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
On 25 July 2001, Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi who had become an MP by then was shot dead as she got out of her car near the gate of her New Delhi residence. Sher Singh Rana, Dheeraj Rana, and Rajbir were accused of the crime. Twenty-five-year-old Rana allegedly surrendered in Dehradun and confessed to the murder, saying he was avenging the deaths of twenty-two Kshatriyas at Phoolan's hands in Behmai. Then he escaped from Tihar Jail in 2004 to reach Afghanistan via Bangladesh in order to reclaim the relics of the last Hindu ruler Prithviraj Chauhan from his grave there. He was captured again from Kolkata in April 2006 and sent to Rohini Jail in Delhi. He is still lodged there since the matter is sub judice. Jail Diary is Rana's story in his own words. It begins on the day of his escape from Tihar and goes back and forth in time describing his childhood in small-town India, the beginning of his political career during college days, his induction into Eklavya Sena through which he was introduced to Phoolan, his days as a liquor vendor in Haridwar, and his nerve-wracking adventures as someone who broke one of the highest security prisons in Asia to pursue what, to his mind, was an act of honour.