(1963-08-10)10 August 1963 Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died
25 July 2001(2001-07-25) (aged 37) New Delhi
Manner of death
Assassination by shooting
Political party
Samajwadi Party
Spouses
Puttilal
Umed Singh
Parents
Devidin (father)
Moola Devi (mother)
Occupation
Dacoit
politician
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 gang of dacoits. Her gang robbed higher-caste villages and held up trains and vehicles. When she punished her rapists and evaded capture by the authorities, she became a heroine to the Other Backward Classes who saw her as a Robin Hood figure. Phoolan Devi was charged in absentia for the 1981 Behmai massacre, in which twenty Thakur men were executed, allegedly on her command. After this event, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh resigned, and calls to apprehend her were amplified. She surrendered two years later in a carefully negotiated settlement and spent eleven years in Gwalior prison, awaiting trial.
Phoolan Devi was released in 1994 after her charges were set aside; she subsequently became a politician and was elected as a member of parliament for the Samajwadi Party in 1996. She lost her seat in 1998 and then regained it the following year; she was the incumbent at the time of her death in 2001. She was assassinated outside her house by Sher Singh Rana, who was convicted for the murder in 2014. At the time of her death, she was still fighting against the reinstituted criminal charges, having lost a 1996 appeal to the Supreme Court to have the charges dropped. Phoolan Devi's worldwide fame grew after the release of the controversial 1994 film Bandit Queen, which told her life story in a way she did not approve of. Her life has also inspired several biographies and her dictated autobiography was entitled I, Phoolan Devi. There are varying accounts of her life because she told differing versions to suit her changing circumstances.
PhoolanDevi (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who became a politician, serving as a...
action-adventure film based on the life of PhoolanDevi as covered in the book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of PhoolanDevi by the Indian author Mala Sen....
1962, Ram Gopal Yadav married PhoolanDevi and the couple had 1 daughter and 3 sons including Akshay Yadav. PhoolanDevi died in August 2010. One of his...
films and the theatre. She gained prominence after playing the role of PhoolanDevi in Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen (1994), for which she won the National...
inspired the famous Bollywood film Paan Singh Tomar played by Irrfan Khan. PhoolanDevi, known as Bandit Queen (even a movie with the same name was made), a...
she was known for her book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of PhoolanDevi, which led to the acclaimed 1994 film Bandit Queen. After researching...
in 1956 in New Delhi by the late Lala Shri Ram in memory of his wife PhoolanDevi (Lady Shri Ram), the college began in a school building in Daryaganj...
film Bandit Queen, based on the infamous Indian bandit and politician PhoolanDevi, it was premiered in the directors fortnight section of the 1994 Cannes...
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Pradesh, India, on 25 October 1986 to Ram Gopal Yadav and PhoolanDevi. His mother Phoolan died in August 2010. He had 1 sister and 2 brothers. His brother...
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village were assassinated by a gang of Mallah under the leadership of PhoolanDevi. Devi was later inducted as Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh by Mulayam...
near Morena, Madhya Pradesh. The story is loosely based on the life of PhoolanDevi, the dacoit-turned politician. The series revolves around a little village...
1960s and 1970s'. Joy Mukherjee was the son of Sashadhar Mukherjee and Sati Devi. His father was a successful producer and a co-founder of Filmalaya Studios...
in 1956 in New Delhi by the late Lala Shri Ram in memory of his wife PhoolanDevi (Lady Shri Ram), the college began in a school building in Daryaganj...
August 2015). "Remembering the Bandit Queen: 10 things to know about PhoolanDevi". India Today. Retrieved 29 November 2021. "Tribal legislator shot dead...
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Mumbai where he worked as casting director on the film Bandit Queen, a PhoolanDevi biopic. He was casting director for 1995's Stiff Upper Lips, in which...
against the Mughal Empire, and established his own kingdom in Bundelkhand PhoolanDevi, (1963–2001) popularly known as "Bandit Queen", was an Indian dacoit...
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