# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phoolan-devi
# Generated: 2026-09-08T19:42:43.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phoolan-devi"
name: "Phoolan Devi"
slug: "phoolan-devi"
description: "Phoolan Devi, 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. Her gang robbed higher-caste villages and held up trains and vehicles. When she punished her rapists and evaded capture by the authorities, she became a heroine to the Other Backward Classes who saw her as a Robin Hood figure. Phoolan Devi was charged in absentia for the 1981 Behmai massacre, in which twenty Thakur men were killed, allegedly on her command. After this event, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh resigned, and calls to apprehend her were amplified. She surrendered two years later in a carefully negotiated settlement and spent eleven years in Gwalior prison, awaiting trial."
tagline: "Indian bandit, politician (1963-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Non-free_picture_of_Phoolan_Devi.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1963-08-10"
deathDate: "2001-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.17
  momentum:             0.02435855797336798
  historical:           24.74060666666667
  currentAttention:     0.1353253220742665
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1513891"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump