Phoolan Devi, The "Bandit Queen"
10 August Birthday of Phoolan Devi, The "Bandit Queen " The story of an ordinary girl turning from a robber to a politician A ten-year-old girl who fought for her father's land. Or a girl-bride, who was first raped by her old husband, then by the party of Sriram Thakur. Or the dangerous bandit who killed 22 people in Behmai village standing in line. Or as a ‘clever’ woman who wanted to join the robbers from the beginning. Shekhar Kapoor, the woman whose life was made into a film by rape, was not even asked. Or perhaps as a politician who has won elections twice. Or a woman who came to meet him, used to feed 'Fan' Sher Singh Rana on the day of Nagpanchami, not knowing that this man would kill her after a while. Phoolan's attitude was the same even at the age of ten Phoolan was born on 10 August 1963 in Purva of Juraun's Ghura in UP. Born into a poor and 'small caste', Phoolan did not have ancestral pressures. He had heard from his mother that un