Phoolan devi autobiography for kids
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Phoolan devi autobiography for kids
The Life and Legend of India’s Bandit Queen
Phoolan Devi’s legacy—as a murderer, goddess, and liberator—masks the woman behind the stories.
On a chill February day in 1983, a 20-year-old young woman known as Phoolan Devi—literally, Flower Goddess—walked out of the forested ravines of the Chambal River valley and handed over her gun.
She bowed to images of Gandhi and the goddess Durga and surrendered herself to the Chief Minister and Chief of Police of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The cheering crowd of 8,000 people gathered that day—journalists; politicians; some 300 cops; and others from across the dry, impoverished center of the world’s largest democracy—knew Phoolan Devi as a hero, a bandit, a murderess, and a goddess long before they saw her in the flesh.
Phoolan Devi, India’s celebrated Bandit Queen, was not a woman, but a legend.
Born to a low-caste household in 1963 in a village on the banks of the sacred Yamuna River in the vast north Indian state of U