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The Bandit Queen of India : One Woman's Heroic Journey from Victim to Vindicator
The Bandit Queen of India One Woman's Heroic Journey from Victim to Vindicator
Author: Phoolan Devi, Paul Rambali, Marie-Therese Cuny
She was born in India to the lowest caste, a group with few rights and even fewer prospects. Enduring cruel poverty, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation of an abusive marriage, the savage killing of her bandit-lover and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains. In a three-year campaign ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781592286416
ISBN-10: 1592286410
Publication Date: 8/1/2006
Pages: 512
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
Book Type: Paperback
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This was a hard read because of the true story. It is inconceivable that people live and are treated this way in today's India but it does. I think everyone including our politicos should be ordered to read this book.
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