I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen by Phoolan Devi (Paperback, 1997)

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Phoolan Devi was born into a poor, low-caste family in Uttar Pradesh, living in a world that gave more respect to a stray dog than to a woman. At 11, she was married off and endured beatings, rapes and persecution. She survived being kidnapped by bandits and became one of them, learning how to shoot like a man. She also found love for the first time, but her lover was brutally murdered. Without his protection, she was paraded naked through villages and gang-raped; but she survived and for three years claimed retribution for herself and all low-caste women, before negotiating her own surrender. After 11 years in prison, she is now free to tell her own story.

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A female Robin Hood, a modern day Count of Monte Cristo - Phoolan Devi, the notorious Bandit Queen of India, has become a living legend. 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.

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PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780751519648
eBay Product ID (ePID)87327436

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Publication Year1997
Book TitleI, Phoolan Devi: the Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiographies & True Stories
AuthorPhoolan Devi
FormatPaperback

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Item Height178 mm
Item Weight276 g
Item Width108 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPhoolan Devi

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