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Old pictures of Phoolan Devi and Baba Ghanshyam with their gang. She can be seen in her bandit avtaar. News paper headline 'A queen goes to jail' is printed on first page of the Newspaper. A picture when Phoolan Devi surrendered with her gang is also part of archive. Pholan Devi popularly known as "Bandit Queen", was an Indian bandit and later a Member of Parliament. Born to a low caste family in rural Uttar Pradesh, Phoolan grew up in extreme poverty, was subjected to child abuse(who was married at a yound age) by her older husband, and upon becoming a social outcast, took to a life of crime. While still a teenager, A group of bandits attacked phoolans village which consists of Mullahs(fisherman caste).Phoolan was kidnapped by a gang of bandits, after the village headman had asked them t
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