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POLITICIAN

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 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Phoolan Devi is the 12,749th most popular politician (down from 12,154th in 2019), the 481st most popular biography from India (down from 460th in 2019) and the 150th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Phoolan Devi ranks 12,749 out of 15,577Before her are Alain Berset, Ernest Bai Koroma, Mohammed Fahim, Carl Johan Thyselius, Eugen Bolz, and William Gopallawa. After her are Reino Ragnar Lehto, Gyula Kállai, Fatima Jinnah, Gunnar Thoroddsen, Mikhail Katkov, and Rodney Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Phoolan Devi ranks 201Before her are Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Glória Pires, Érik Comas, E. L. James, Antoine Kombouaré, and Harold Perrineau. After her are Aslan Bzhania, Kenny Johnson, Ivan Capelli, Juan Carlos Varela, Bernard Cazeneuve, and Jason Connery. Among people deceased in 2001, Phoolan Devi ranks 185Before her are Martha Mödl, Jalil Zandi, Burkhard Heim, Milorad B. Protić, Juan José Arreola, and Robert Leckie. After her are Mongo Beti, Enrique Mateos, Lewis Arquette, Eugene Sledge, Jenő Fock, and Vasily Abaev.

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In India

Among people born in India, Phoolan Devi ranks 481 out of 1,493Before her are Sanjay Gandhi (1946), Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1858), Sharmila Tagore (1944), Kamini Roy (1864), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), and Robert Swinhoe (1836). After her are Fatima Jinnah (1893), Islam Shah Suri (1510), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), V. S. Ramachandran (1951), Arjun Appadurai (1949), and Jackie Shroff (1957).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Phoolan Devi ranks 150Before her are Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), and Sanjay Gandhi (1946). After her are Fatima Jinnah (1893), Islam Shah Suri (1510), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923), and Jyoti Basu (1914).