The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend by Phoolan Devi
The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend

Phoolan Devi

The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend

Phoolan Devi with Marie-Thérèse Cuny, Paul Rambali

512 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging dark emotional slow-paced
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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 ...

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