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	Phoolan Devi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born into a family of the shudra sub-caste of boatmen called mallahs in the small village of Gorha Ka Purwa, Uttar Pradesh, India.
		She became known as the "Bandit Queen" who fought authority with knife and gun, and was often popularly regarded as champion of the downtrodden, after the fashion of Robin Hood.
		She first came to national and international attention in 1981 as the leader of a gang who allegedly killed 22 high-caste Thakur men in a village of Uttar Pradesh, in what was later dubbed the Behmai Massacre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoolan_Devi (405 words)

	Planet Bollywood: Film Review: Bandit Queen
		Shekhar Kapur's "Bandit Queen" has gotten more mileage from the hoopla surrounding the temporary ban on the movie in India than on the substance of his dramatization of the life and times of Phoolon Devi, the country's most wanted outlaw between 1979 and 1983.
		"Bandit Queen" is essentially a never ending sequence of rapes and the mindless violence of a one-dimensional Rambo-lina on a righteous rampage.
		Despite all the manufactured hoopla I doubt that "Bandit Queen" will survive its season either as a memorable film or as a commentary on the caste system, for the evil that the uppercrust Shekhar Kapur tries to portray lies beyond his imagination.
	www.indolink.com /Film/banditQn.html (985 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Bandit Queen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Bandit Queen," a hard and bitter film, tells her story, which continues even today; recently released from prison, she has sued to prevent the release of the film, which has also been banned by the Indian censors.
		By the time she is kidnapped by a gang of bandits, she has already become such an outsider that this is a move up in society - especially when she is befriended by Vikram (Nirmal Pandey), the only man in the gang (or in the movie) who treats her with respect.
		As a bandit, she takes her place beside men in a society that refuses to believe a woman is capable of such a thing.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950714/REVIEWS/507140301/1023 (852 words)

	Bandit Queen (1994)
		Bandit Queen is a powerful indictment of Indian society, yet that very society condemns itself by treating women as objects.
		An interesting aspect of Bandit Queen is that Phoolan is not presented as a feminist, in the Western sense (since she isn't one).
		On a larger scale, her position as a champion of the poor is hardly touched upon, leaving Bandit Queen as an intimate portrait rather than a broad canvas of historical affairs.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Bandit_Queen.html (867 words)

	Bandit Queen (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Plot Summary: The movie tells the story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994...
		'Bandit Queen' is an art-house update of the old 70s exploitation movies, in which the chief focus is on female discomfiture is justified by a pseudo-feminist revenge-plot.
		By lingering on her suffering rather than her revenge, the latter is as abrupt, arbitrary and dreamlike as 'Honey, I Decreased the Kids in Size' (1986), the vile murders shot with the same kind of exquisite taste and fussy staging, the political wholly subsumed to the deranged personal.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0109206 (678 words)

	Review: Bandit Queen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nevertheless, regardless of its historical veracity, Bandit Queen is an excellent examination of caste discrimination, human suffering, and the role of women in India's changing culture.
		Her entire life from the age of eleven, when she is married to a much older man, is devoted to fighting for the rights of women and striking blows against a viciously prejudiced social structure.
		Bandit Queen is not for the squeamish, or for those who prefer not to be challenged or unsettled by a motion picture.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/bandit.html (681 words)

	THE BANDIT QUEEN'S METTLE: India's Famed Outlaw
		She was feared and revered as the "Bandit Queen," leader of a gang of dacoits -- robbers -- that plundered and murdered, often stealing from the rich higher castes and sharing the spoils with the poor lower castes.
		In return, many of the bandit leaders were idolized by the poor, who considered their banditry just another profession in a land where the poor had to fight for every rupee.
		While the national press and the poor villagers of the region delighted in the escapades of the Bandit Queen, she was no laughing matter for state and national politicians who were being depicted as fools by the media.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~pm9k/gifs/ZoForth/Pholan/devimoll.html (2569 words)

	The Indian Express : Op-Ed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That she carried a silver figurine of the goddess Durga, and insisted that a picture of the goddess be put when she surrendered in Bhind added weight to the aura of the wronged, avenging woman.
		‘‘Phoolan was transformed from bandit to mythological Bandit Queen because she had been thrown into a situation by life, and she fought it with the only skills she had,’’ explains German photographer Dieter Ludwig, whose pictures of Phoolan find their way into her autobiography.
		There was also the other side of Phoolan, which director Shekhar Kapur chose to portray, to the exclusion of other aspects of her character in Bandit Queen: the tart-tongued gamine, played to the hilt by Seema Biswas.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie20010726/op2.html (584 words)

	Bandit Queen Belle Starr
		Although she was a companion to known thieves and felons and stole a horse or two, Myra Maybelle Shirley was neither a belle nor the star of any outlaw band...still she remains a legendary wild woman of the Old West.
		Her marriage to bandit Jim Reed was said to have been performed on horseback, not by a man of the cloth, but by another member of the gang.
		The so-called Bandit Queen was actually an unfortunate woman hardened by her times and associates.
	www.historynet.com /we/blbanditqueenbellestar (1082 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Bandit Queen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eventually, the bandits turn on her, kill her lover and gang-rape her, but somehow, she survives and fights back again.
		As the leader of a gang of bandits she became a folk hero in her nation, a symbol of to all downtrodden women in India.
		Although the "Bandit Queen" is a film loaded with violence and hatred, it is also an affirmation of the durability of the human spirit.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/banditqueen.html (477 words)

	The legendary Bandit Queen Of India- A short history of Phoolan Devi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The legendary bandit queen Phoolan Devi, a lower caste womyn from India, rose from poverty, rape and abuse to become a modern day bandit, personally avenging her honor and stealing from the rich while giving to the poor.
		She had lived as a bandit for four years by then and had a price of $10,400 on her head and many charges of murder, kidnapping and banditry to her name.
		Throughout her entire life India’s bandit queen was unwilling to put up with the oppression that was hammered down onto her from birth.
	gladstone.uoregon.edu /~insurgnt/12.7/banditqueen.html (1486 words)

	CNN.com - Millions mourn India's Bandit Queen - August 2, 2001
		NEW DELHI, India -- Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen and member of parliament who was gunned down outside her home in New Delhi last week, is being mourned by millions across India.
		Phoolan Devi, who came to be known as the "Bandit Queen," lived the life of an outlaw for 4 years in the ravines of Central India.
		During her life as a gun-toting bandit she was charged with, but never convicted for the massacre of 22 upper-class men.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/01/india.bandit (477 words)

	CNN.com - 'Bandit Queen' murder suspect confesses, say police - July 28, 2001
		Devi's almost mythical status in India had its roots in the early 1980s when she was on the run as the head of a bandit gang in the ravines of central India.
		She ran away from her abusive husband and was kidnapped several years later by lower-caste bandits who roamed the lawless Chambal Ravines in India's central Hindu heartland.
		Two bandits shot dead her gang leader lover and took her to their village, where she was confined in a shack and allegedly gang raped by local men.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/07/27/india.devi.suspect (575 words)

	CNN.com - India's 'Bandit Queen' MP shot dead - July 26, 2001
		Devi's almost mythical status had its roots in the early 1980s when she was on the run as the head of a bandit gang in the ravines of central India.
		Her story was the subject of numerous films and books, but first came to international prominence in the 1994 movie Bandit Queen, directed by Shekhar Kapur.
		Two bandits shot dead Devi's gang leader lover and took her their village of where she was confined in a shack and allegedly gang raped by local men.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/07/25/india.devi (514 words)

	Amazon.com: Bandit Queen (1995): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		'Bandit Queen' is an arthouse update of the old 70s exploitation movies, in which a relentless focus on female suffering is justified by a pseudo-feminist revenge-plot.
		When the latter is released, now turned police informer, he resents the pretensions of this lower-caste woman (called a goddess by her followers), has her gang-raped by all his men, and publicly stripped and humiliated.
		By lingering on her suffering rather than her revenge, the latter is as abrupt, arbitrary and dreamlike as 'Lawrence Of Arabia', the vile murders shot with the same kind of exquisite taste and fussy staging, the political wholly subsumed to the deranged personal.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003G4J3?v=glance (1639 words)

	from: The Seattle Times, 'Bandit Queen fights for women's rights in rural India'
		For millions of rural Indian women exploited by men, shackled to husbands chosen for them by their elders and burdened by dowries their in-laws might consider insufficient, the Bandit Queen has become a militant symbol for women's rights.
		By the time she turned herself in to authorities in 1983, Devi's life story had become folklore, perpetuated in a film "The Bandit Queen." Born into a Dalit caste of Untouchable boat-rowers, she was married at age 11 to a widower 20 years her elder.
		Devi ran away to the deep jungle of her native region south of Agra and became the mistress of a bandit leader.
	website.lineone.net /~jon.simmons/roy/st_onbq.htm (968 words)

	CNN - 'Bandit Queen' - Jan. 28, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"Bandit Queen" is a film of revenge -- and ultimate triumph.
		The story of "Bandit Queen," an offering of Bombay's film industry, might sound far-fetched, but it isn't fiction.
		The gun-toting folk hero roamed the treacherous terrain of Central India's Chambal Valley -- once the heartland of bandits -- seeking to exact revenge on those who she said had raped her and abetted the exploitation of lower caste villagers.
	edition.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9601/bandit_queen (422 words)

	Little India
		We did not like the other queen with a purse in one hand and a stick in the other.
		She was the first bandit queen, for some 150 years.
		This Queen had our skin color and she was like us.
	www.littleindia.com /archive/aug2001/bandit.htm (376 words)

	CBC News - India's 'Bandit Queen' shot outside her home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		India's legendary "Bandit Queen"-turned-politician was killed when three masked bandits shot her outside her home on Wednesday.
		Devi was known as a "Robin Hood"-type bandit, a symbol of the revolt against lower-class misery, who became a member of Parliament.
		After being run out of town as a harlot, she became the mistress of a bandit leader, who was killed by a rival gang.
	cbc.ca /cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/07/25/india_bandit010725 (357 words)

	'Bandit Queen'
		Based on Devi's diaries, this powerful but grueling Indian film is not only a tribute to her spirit, but also a searing indictment of a culture corrupted by the caste system and degraded by chauvinism.
		(The real-life Devi reportly plans to run for public office; apparently, her lower-caste followers are unconcerned with her bloody history.) Biswas brings enormous ferocity and tenacity to the title role of "The Bandit Queen," a test of endurance not only for the heroine, but the audience.
		The Bandit Queen, at the Outer Circle and Shirlington Cineplex Odeons, is in Hindi with English subtitles.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/banditqueennrkempley_c01ed1.htm (476 words)

	FrontierTimes - Outlaws - Belle Starr
		Belle Starr, also known as the "Bandit Queen" and the subject of much speculation in innumerable stories and popular publications, was born Myra Maybelle (or Belle) Shirley on February 5, 1848, on a farm near Carthage, Missouri, one of six children and the only daughter of John and Elizabeth (or Eliza) (Hatfield) Shirley.
		When he published Bella Starr, the Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James (1889), a twenty-five-cent novel based loosely on her life, the legends began.
		In Belle Starr and Her Times, a book that is likely to become the standard reference on this subject, noted western writer Glenn Shirley examines the extensive popular literature surrounding Belle Starr and compares it to the historical record.
	www.frontiertimes.com /outlaws/belle_starr.html (1431 words)

	Feminist Daily News 7/26/2001: "Bandit Queen" Assassinated in New Delhi
		Phoolan Devi, the outlaw-turned-lawmaker portrayed in the movie "Bandit Queen," was assassinated yesterday outside her New Delhi home.
		Forced to marry at the age of 12, Devi fled her abusive husband and then joined a gang of outlaws who robbed from members of the upper castes and protected the lower castes, especially women.
		In 1994, Devi’s story was mythologized in the movie "Bandit Queen." Her story of fighting gender and caste oppression through brutal crime was controversial.
	www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=5693 (287 words)

	Bandit Queen (1994): Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Mala Sen - PopMatters Film Review
		When she runs away from her husband and is kidnapped by a gang of bandits, who proceed to abuse her until one of them is shot in the head, mid-rape, by another bandit, the handsome young man who would become her lover and mentor, Vikram Mallah (Nirmal Pandey).
		Portrayed in the film as a valiant and often moralistic criminal ("I don't buy people," he tells Devi after saving her from the latest rape scene, "I earn their respect"), he teaches her to shoot, ride horses, and survive in the desert that would be their home.
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/bandit-queen-dvd.shtml (943 words)

	AM Archive - India's Bandit Queen murdered
		She was gang raped repeatedly over a three-week period before she escaped and formed her own bandit gang.
		By the time the 'Bandit Queen' had surrendered to police two years later, she had become a controversial symbol against oppression.
		But the Bandit Queen's struggle could not be denied.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s335744.htm (565 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Bandit Queen (Sdtk) - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at Epinions.com
		Bandit Queen (Sdtk) - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
		I'll start by saying that "Bandit Queen" is one of my all-time favorite CDs.
		This album is the soundtrack to the movie "Bandit Queen," which is based on the true story of Phoolan Devi, the bandit queen who was in prison from '83-'94 in India.
	www.epinions.com /content_103275990660 (675 words)

	Arundhati Roy on Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen
		Bandit Queen on the other hand, has nothing intelligent to say about the subject beyond the fact that Rape is degrading and humiliating.
		Bandit Queen shows her present and responsible for the massacre of twenty-two Thakurs at Behmai.
		When Bandit Queen is released in India the people who see it will believe that it is the Truth.
	www.umiacs.umd.edu /users/sawweb/sawnet/roy_bq2.html (3337 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Bandit Queen: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When she was 16 she was kidnapped by bandits, eventually marrying a bandit leader and becoming one of them.
		Her 2nd husband was killed by a treasonous co-leader, she was forced into hiding – eventually becoming the Bandit Queen for 4 years.
		Phoolan is careful to set herself up as the “Robin Hood” type of Bandit Queen – stealing from the rich, punishing mis-deeds as told by poor villagers, giving away to the poor (oh, and castrating rapists).
	www.epinions.com /content_181480558212 (1212 words)

	TIME.com: India's Bandit Queen Died As She Once Lived -- Page 1
		Born into the grinding poverty of a lower-caste family in Uttar Pradesh, she was married off to a widower at age 11 who beat and tortured her.
		She ran away from him but was shunned by her village elders, and spent her early teenage years in the violent world of the Dacoits — the storied bandits who roam the desolate plains of northern India.
		And while it established her notoriety as one of India’s most-wanted bandits, in the eyes of millions of Dalits it also turned her into an icon of resistance against caste abuse.
	www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,168857,00.html (842 words)

	Indian church deplores killing of former bandit queen
		In a statement on Devi's death, Indian President K.R. Narayanan said her story, which became the subject of several books and the movie Bandit Queen, was one of "rebellion and successful defiance against oppression and exploitation."
		Poohlan Devi became known by the media, after being accused of the murder 23 upper-caste Hindus in 1981 in a remote village of Uttar Pradesh.
		Following an 11-year jail sentence, Poohlan Devi became involved in politics and was elected to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament.
	www.cathnews.com /news/107/130.php (228 words)

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