India's Bandit Queen - The True Story of Phoolan Devi

Sen, Mala

Pandora / HarperCollins

Born into poverty in Northern India, Phoolan Devi has become one of the most famous bandits in India's history, a living legend revered by millions. In revenge for the murder of her lover - and her own rape - Phoolan is said to have been responsible for the murder of 22 highcaste Hindu men. Based on prison diaries, letters, family interviews, police records and eye witness accounts, this updated edition takes account of recent developments in Phoolan's story - as well as wider events in India's troubled democracy.

India's Bandit Queen

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Harpercollins

Although banned by the British in 1929, sati cases have reappeared recently, most notably the incident involving Roop Kanwar in 1987. A careful study of Roop Kanwar, Indian society and values, and the role of politics in positioning women in modern India.

Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India by Mala Sen (2001-03-03)

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Penguin India

Death By Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India

Social Sciences

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The Indian village of Deorala in Rajasthan, the northwestern Indian state that borders Pakistan, is neither remote nor feudal in the strictest sense. A tarmac road links the population of 10,000 to neighboring villages and towns, there is running water and electricity, and the villagers have had television for more than twenty years. On September 4, 1987, Deorala found itself in the center of a furor that awoke age-old conflicts in Indian society. Before a crowd of several thousand people, mostly men, a young woman dressed in her bridal finery was burned alive on her husband’s funeral pyre. The apparent revival of an ancient tradition opened old wounds in Indian society and focused world attention on the status and treatment of women in modern India.
The ancient practice of sati — the self-immolation of a woman on her husband’s funeral pyre — was outlawed by the British administration in India in 1829, and sati was widely believed to have died out. The fate of 18-year-old Roop Kanwar changed that perception. Mala Sen explores the reality of life and death for women in modern India in a study that is both illuminating and terrifying. The book is part journey through the India that the author knows and loves, and part exploration of the enigma that India still remains in the minds of many. Starting with Kanwar, Sen enters the worlds of three women: a goddess, a burned bride, and a woman accused of killing her daughter, and shows how, in this society in which ancient and modern apparently co-exist comfortably, there is increasingly cause for real alarm. She creates an image of a state in which political turmoil is constantly at the surface, and in which the role of women is constantly being redefined.

Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death, and Female Infanticide in Modern India

History

Asia

Rutgers University Press

Castellano (Spanish) Edicion. La tragica condicion de la mujer en India. Por la autora de "La reina de los bandidos." Spanish edition about the tragic condition of women in India. By the author of "La reina de los bandidos"

Fuego Sagrado/ Sacred Fire (Spanish Edition)

Memoirs

Lumen Editorial

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