# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mala-sen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:53:49.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mala-sen"
name: "Mala Sen"
slug: "mala-sen"
description: "Mala Sen was a Bengali-Indian-British writer and human rights activist. As an activist, she was known for her civil rights activism and race relations work in London during the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the British Asian and British Black Panthers movements, and later her women's rights activism in India. As a writer, she was known for her book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi, which led to the acclaimed 1994 film Bandit Queen. After researching the oppression of women in rural India, Sen also published Death by Fire in 2002."
tagline: "Indian author"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Mala_Sen_1947_2011.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-06-03"
deathDate: "2011-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.102558666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مالا سین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مالا سين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মালা সেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মালা সেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_Sen"
    title: "Mala Sen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_Sen"
    title: "Mala Sen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "माला सेन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಮಾಲಾ ಸೇನ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਮਾਲਾ ਸੇਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "مالا سین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "மாலா சென்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "మాలా సేన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16320284"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump