Essay : The Bandit Queen of India
Phoolan Devi (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as the Bandit Queen , was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who became a politician, serving as a member of parliament until her assassination. She was a woman of the Mallah subcaste who grew up in poverty in a village in the state of Uttar Pradesh , where her family was on the losing side of a land dispute which caused them many problems. After being married off at the age of eleven and being sexually abused by various people, she joined a g
