Faculty of Design

Illustration

Caroline Icardo

The Bandit Queen

"The Bandit Queen” shows Phoolan Devi, was married at 11 to an unknown man in exchange for a cow, pushed to commit suicide once she left him at 12, and became a fierce bandit queen who supported the lower castes of India. She is known for participating in the revenge killing of 22 men from the same village her rapist was from. She later became a member of the Indian parliament.