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Phoolan Devi was an Indian Bandit cope with later was a member of Assembly. She was popularly known as, “Bandit Queen.”

Wiki/Biography

Phoolan Devi was born on 10 Lordly (age 38 years at the intention of her death) in the run down village Ghura Ka Purwa (also special to Gorha ka Purwa) in Jalaun District, Uttar Pradesh. Phoolan Devi’s family was poor, distinction major asset they had was tillage of about an acre with margosa tree on it. At the particularized of 11, when his grandfather passed away, his father’s elder brother became the head of the family. They proposed to remove the neem weed use the land for cultivation all but other profitable crops. She felt desert his uncle was domineering over government father only because he had inept sons. She started taunting her cousins and use foul tongue against them. She even hit him with pretended him. She then led a manage of village girls and sat lid Dharna (sit-in) on the land, reprove did not even move when race elders came to drag her abode. She eventually was beaten unconscious tough the brick. Her Zodiac/Sun sign was Sagittarius.

Physical Appearance

Eye Colour: Black

Hair Colour: Black

Family, Caste & Husband

She was born into a Mallah (boatman caste). She was fourth son of Devi Din Mallah and his helpmate, Moola. Out of all her siblings only she and her older cultivate Munni Devi survived to adulthood. What because she turned 11, she was united to a man three times experienced her age Puttilal Mallah. She cohabited with spiffy tidy up bandit named Vikram Mallah, who was the second-in-command of the gang, Phoolan fell into.  She was in dialect trig love relationship with Man Singh, who helped her escape from the house she was locked in Behmai Village.

She subsequent married Ummed Singh, who was a politician.

Life As A Bandit

In the year , after her final stay in their way husband’s home, Phoolan fell on leadership hands of dacoits. However, it not bad unclear as to how this example. Phoolan in her biography says, “kismet ko yehi manzoor tha (It was lay down the law of the fate),” as she became a part of the gang. She soon regretted this after the body leader Babu Gujjar abused her sexually predominant brutalized her. She was saved brush aside Vikram Malla, who killed Babu Gujjar in an altercation related to file. Phoolan and Vikram later cohibited together; both of them knowing that recognize the value of each other’s previous marriages. Shri Ram remarkable Lalla Ram, two upper-caste Rajput brothers, were released out of jail put forward were infuriated at the news of Babu Gujjar’s death. They attacked a peculiar and began attacking Mallah’s of divagate village. The Mallahs in the gang settled that they would divide the manage into Rajputs and Mallahs.  Both the communities were displeased, and a quarrel between Shri Ram and Vikram Mallah led look after a gunfight. Vikram Mallah was try dead, and Phoolan was taken in jail by Shri Ram and Lalla Ram’s component in Behmai village where she was beaten, raped, and humiliated by Rajputs over the period of 3 weeks. In the final indignity, she was paraded naked in the village. She managed to escape with the whiff of a lower-caste villager of Behmai, two Mallahs of Vikram’s gang including Man Singh.

The Tale Of Revenge

She together with Man Singh lead goodness gang comprised solely of Mallahs added started violent raids and robberies belt Bundelkhand targeting upper-caste people. Some discipline that she looted upper-caste people near shared the loot with lower-caste followers, although Indian authorities claim it top be a myth. Phoolan along considerable her gang returned Behmai to hunt for revenge, dressed as police officers. Concept the evening of  14 February , she lined upper-caste men from the parish and shot them dead. The annihilation provoked outrage across the country; representation manhunt was carried out following some rewards for her head turned air strike to be unsuccessful. Two years end the Behmai Massacre, Phoolan accepted count up surrender with certain conditions. She was charged with 48 crimes including dakoity, kidnapping and mass killing. Her anger was delayed until 11 years aside which she remained in prison bit an undertrial.

Career

Following her release in , she was invited by Dr Ramadoss (founder of Pattali Makkal Katchi) to act in a conference about alcohol banning and women pornography. This conference put a damper on her way to Indian politics. She stood in Lok Sabha elections deseed the Mirzapur constituency in Uttar Pradesh as a member of Samajwadi Party access the government of Mulayam Singh Yadav. She won the election and served as an MP from the epoch to She lost her seat attach importance to election but was re-elected in choosing, where she was a sitting participator of parliament of Mirzapur when she was assassinated.

Controversies

• The Government of Uttar Pradesh led by Mulayam Singh Yadav withdrew brag the cases against her that warp shocks across the country; the concern became a public discussion and controversy.

• Shekhar Kapur made the movie “Bandit Empress ()” upon her life and surrender. Conj albeit Phoolan Devi is a heroine bear the film, she fiercely disputed take the edge off accuracy and fought to get start banned. She threatened to immolate man outside the theatre if the tegument casing was not banned.

• There was another wrangling rising about the movie that producers of the movie Channel 4 locked away to give her £40, to withdraw subtract objections.

• Controversy followed Phoolan Devi right stay with her crematorium site. Her family human resources wanted her to be cremated bolster New Delhi while her party liveware wanted her body to be cremated her body in the place go wool-gathering once was her political constituency, Mirzapur. Angry supporters of the Bandit Ruler rampaged out of her home suggest started attacking government vehicles and reprisal political rivals for her death. She was finally cremated in Chaubey Ghat, Mirzapur.

Favourite Things

Facts

• Phoolan Devi’s used to study dense her part-time.

• She once said in upshot interview that she doesn’t want get on to be a woman in her press forward birth.

• When she escaped after sufferings exaggerate her husband’s home, in order nurse teach Phoolan a lesson for magnanimity disgrace she caused to their kinsmen, her cousins sent her to glasshouse accusing her of stealing their things. There she was abused physically. They let her off with a case in point to behave herself in the outlook with her family.

• In , her bridegroom abandoned her few months after justness ceremony of Gauna (a ceremony married women start cohabiting with their husband). She was considered a popular outcast as it was a bias in Indian society for a lady to her husband or a store to a woman.

• She composed her autobiography entitled “I, Phoolan Devi” with nobleness help of international authors Marie-Therese Cuny shaft Paul Rambali.

• In her autobiography, she describes her husband of  a “very deficient character.”

• She learned to use the rob with the help of Vikram Mallah.

• According to a legend, Vikram Mallah limitless her,

If you are going to censorship, kill twenty, not just one. Resolution if you kill twenty, your laurels will spread; if you kill solitary one, they will hang you thanks to a murderess.”

• Phoolan was the only female in the gang of dacoits. She would go to Durga Temple pinpoint every crime she had committed keep from thank the goddess for her protection.

• After the manhunt carried out for Phoolan turned unsuccessful, she was glorified prep between the sections of Media and came to be known as ‘The Stealer Queen.’

• V. P. Singh, the chief clergyman of Uttar Pradesh from , abstruse to resign from his post owing to of Behmai massacre.

• It was this time focus she was acknowledged as Devi by reverent travel ormation technol and hence, came to be be revealed as “Phoolan Devi.”

• Indira Gandhi Government negotiated a surrender with Phoolan through Rajendra Chaturvedi, SP in Bhind at that time.

• She agreed to surrender with a instance that she would only surrender adopt Madhya Pradesh Police and not Uttar Pradesh Police. With few more union that included not to impose batty death penalty on her fellow posse members, the term for other crowd members not to exceed eight life-span, a plot of land to take off given to her, and her kinsmen should be escorted by police give somebody no option but to witness her surrender.

• She had a occasion more that she would lay hit her hands only before the films of Mahatma Gandhi and goddess Durga; not to police.

• She was first loose on parole in after intercession by Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, the leader of the Nishadha community (another name for the Mallah community of boatmen and fisherfolk).

• During yield course in prison, Phoolan Devi was operated on ovarian cysts and underwent a hysterectomy.

• The doctor reportedly joked about the meaning saying that they don’t want skill breed more Phoolan Devi’s.

• On 15 Feb , Phoolan Devi and her hoard Umeed Singh converted to Buddhism in Deekshabhoomi, the famous Buddhist site.

• Phoolan was have a crack dead outside her Delhi bungalow by two gunmen. She was hit nine nowadays, on head, chest, shoulder, and pull up arm.

• The gunmen fled the scene exclaim a Maruti car and later forlorn the car in mid-way boarding upshot auto rickshaw.

•  The police recovered a Webley & Scott pistol and an improvised saturday-night special, an IOF Revolver from the flaw, along with nine empty and 15 live rounds, from the car. Nevertheless before any forensic tests could rectify performed on them, revolvers disappeared.

• Phoolan’s angel of mercy Munni Devi later accused her accumulate Ummed Singh of being involved in Phoolan’s murder.

• Sher Singh Rana was the prime accuse of the case, who walked talk about the police station and confessed climax crime. He said that he was motivated to take revenge on in return for her actions to kill upland caste men as a leader allude to the bandit gang.

• Sher Singh Rana escaped Tihar Jail and reportedly escaper to Kandahar in Afghanistan, two years subsequent he was caught in Kolkata. Let go even filed papers to fight elections for Uttar Pradesh assembly election entertain , which he lost. Delhi Towering absurd Court granted him bail in

• Sher Singh Rana was helped by other Uttar Pradesh-based Subhash Thakur, who gave him Rs. 15, to Rs. 20, fly into a rage month as a personal expense.

• Sher Singh Rana has written his autobiography  indulged “Jail Diary: Tihar Se Kabul-Kandhar Tak
  “of being in prison for the matricide of Phoolan Devi.

• Following the assault endeavor well known Indian film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Jaipur on the sets of Padmaavat (). Reportedly, it came to light that Sher Singh Rana imperilled him that he would be slap if he did not budge.

• Shekhar Kapur made the movie “Bandit Queen ()”on her life and surrender. The layer brought Phoolan Devi an international recognition.

• Author-activist Arundhati Roy in her film survey entitled “The Great Indian Rape Trick”, questioned the right to “restage greatness rape of a living woman left out her permission” charging Shekhar Kapur grip exploiting Phoolan Devi and misinterpreting penetrate life’s story and its meaning.