THREAD: REMEMBERING THE FIRST ENRAGED FEMINIST FIGURE AND THE BANDIT QUEEN #PhoolanDevi ON HER DEATH ANNIVERSARY (10/08/1963 - 25/07/2014)
Born in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh to the lower caste Mallah (a dalit community) of boatsmen. When she was around 11 years of age she was married to a 30 year old man, she was unhappy with her forced marriage and once ran away from her home.
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It's believed when she was16, she was abducted by a gang and she became the only female member of the gang. The gang leader sexually harassed her for several weeks ans she was passed to every male member of the gang.
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"Vikram Mallah" who was from the same caste of Phoolan devi in revenge murdered the gang leader and took over leadership but he was killed by Upper caste rivals. Again Phoolan was abducted by upper caste rivals and was was raped by 22 Rajput men for several weeks in Behmai.
She escaped and formed and headed her own gang only to return to Behmai on 14 February, 1981.
"She caught dragged all those 22 Rajput men, made them stand in a row and open fired on them".
From that day she got command in her hand and because a enraged feminist figure.
From that day she became the target of upper caste patriarchs, she sought to fight for the rights of women's and opressed she looted the rich and uplifted the poors and emerged as a robin hood and escaped police for many days, finally she surrendered and got a jail of 11 years.
After that she was elected to parliament,as a parliamentarian she worked for Poor & women's right she sought to end child marriage. She was assassinated on July 25 by an upper caste rival.
Though years after her death people owe respect to the feminist bandit queen!
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