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Phoolan Devi

1963 - 2001

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Phoolan Devi (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who became a politician, serving as a member of parliament until her assassination. She was a woman of the Mallah subcaste who grew up in poverty in a village in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where her family was on the losing side of a land dispute which caused them many problems. After being married off at the age of eleven and being sexually abused by various people, she joined a gang of dacoits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phoolan Devi has received more than 4,543,957 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Phoolan Devi is the 11,763rd most popular politician (up from 12,706th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from India (up from 477th in 2019) and the 141st most popular Indian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Phoolan Devis by language

Over the past year Phoolan Devi has had the most page views in the with 509,657 views, followed by Hindi (187,202), and German (19,473). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Georgian (318.45%), Bhojpuri (162.37%), and Tamil (113.76%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Phoolan Devi ranks 11,763 out of 19,576. Before her are Hippolyte Carnot, Romuald Traugutt, Nicolae Bălcescu, Yusuf III of Granada, Cristóbal Mendoza, and Margherita Maria Farnese. After her are Keith Mitchell, Nikola Špirić, Vladislav Surkov, João do Canto e Castro, Ahmed Khan bin Küchük, and Šefik Džaferović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Phoolan Devi ranks 156. Before her are Dave Foley, Fatboy Slim, Shaun Toub, Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, Zurab Zhvania, and David Seaman. After her are Hans Gillhaus, Érik Comas, Hugh Bonneville, Blaze Bayley, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, and Karl Markovics. Among people deceased in 2001, Phoolan Devi ranks 146. Before her are Victor Wong, Viktor Astafyev, Javier Urruticoechea, Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Ray Walston, and Melanie Thornton. After her are Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, Berry Berenson, Paul Magloire, Stelios Kazantzidis, Salahuddin of Selangor, and Jaromil Jireš.

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In India

Among people born in India, Phoolan Devi ranks 435 out of 1,861. Before her are Udham Singh (1899), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), and B. V. Doshi (1927). After her are D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Jagjit Singh (1941), and Abhijit Banerjee (1961).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Phoolan Devi ranks 141. Before her are Man Singh I (1550), Prince Vijaya (-543), Hemu (1501), Guru Har Rai (1630), Jacques Lauriston (1768), and Sukhdev Thapar (1907). After her are Sucheta Kriplani (1908), Jhalkaribai (1830), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), Fatima Sheikh (1831), Jaswant Singh (1938), and Chand Bibi (1550).

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