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London, UK: Allen & Unwin, Date: 1984. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard cover, first edition, 444g, 244pgs. The story of one woman who threw off oppression and became a notorious criminal, reigning as the Dacoit Queen. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear, dust jacket is in good condition with mild shelf wear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.. 1984. Allen & Unwin ISBN 0049200976 9780049200975 [AU]
ISBN10: 0049200976, ISBN13: 9780049200975, [publisher: Allen & Unwin, London, UK] Hardcover First Edition Hard cover, first edition, 444g, 244pgs. The story of one woman who threw off oppression and became a notorious criminal, reigning as the Dacoit Queen. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear, dust jacket is in good condition with mild shelf wear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. [Buttaba, Newcastle, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 1984]
ISBN10: 0049200976, ISBN13: 9780049200975, [publisher: George Allen and Unwin Ltd] Hardcover George Allen and Unwin, 1984. First edition. A very good copy in a very good d/w. [York, WA, Australia] [Publication Year: 1984]
London: George Allen & Unwin, Date: 1984. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, reverse side jacket lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 244 pp. Richard Shears and Isobelle Gidley record the remarkable story of Phoolan Devi, Goddess of Flowers - the legendary Indian Dacoit Queen - who suffered torture and rape before escaping her captors, and then taking bloody revenge and living a criminal life on the run. Records her final dramatic surrender and capture, and her impending trial. 1984. George Allen & Unwin ISBN 0049200976 9780049200975 [AU]
ISBN10: 0049200976, ISBN13: 9780049200975, [publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London] Hardcover Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, reverse side jacket lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 244 pp. Richard Shears and Isobelle Gidley record the remarkable story of Phoolan Devi, Goddess of Flowers - the legendary Indian Dacoit Queen - who suffered torture and rape before escaping her captors, and then taking bloody revenge and living a criminal life on the run. Records her final dramatic surrender and capture, and her impending trial. [Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 1984]
ISBN10: 0049200976, ISBN13: 9780049200975, [publisher: George Allen & Unwin] Hardcover First Edition Hardback. After being tortured and raped for 23 days by the killers of her bandit lover, a young Indian woman set out on a path of revenge. Phoolan Devi - Goddess of Flowers - escaped from her captors and formed her own band of 'dacoits', masterminding a massacre on St. Valentine's Day 1981, which ended in the deaths of 20 villagers. Never before in Indian history had so many high caste Hindus died at the unclean hands of their inferiors. From that day, Devi was on the run, fostering a violent and romantic legend, robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Hiding in snake-infested ravines, she eluded capture for 2yrs despite police ambushes and gun battles which left many dead. She became revered as one who had cast off oppression and had resurrected a mythical golden age when women were free from the restraints of Hinduism. Married against her will at the age of 11 to an old man who already had a wife, Devi finally ran away with a group of bandits whose leader was to become her lover. During her reign as the Dacoit Queen, police put a large reward on her head, but despite many attempts to capture her she always managed to shoot her way to freedom. Once the running was over, Phoolan Devi sat in jail awaiting trial for murder after a dramatic surrender ceremony when, dressed in a khaki uniform and a red bandanna, she handed over her rifle to a govern ...
ISBN10: 0049200976, ISBN13: 9780049200975, [publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London] Hardcover First Edition First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark grey cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 244pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (48/3) [Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1984]
ISBN10: 0049200976, ISBN13: 9780049200975, [publisher: Allen & Unwin, London] Hardcover First Edition Pages clean; binding tight; slight wear to edges of dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket [Cheltenham, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1984]
ISBN10: 0049200976, ISBN13: 9780049200975, [publisher: London: Allen & Unwin: First edition] Hardcover First Edition 8vo., x, 244pp., illustrations from photographs, original cloth gilt. A fine clean copy in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. Phoolan Devi (1963 2001), popularly known as "Bandit Queen", was an Indian dacoit and later a politician. After becoming estranged from her family, a young Phoolan became the moll of the leader of a group of a bandits. A few years later, during an internecine struggle for gang leadership, her paramour was killed and Phoolan was gang-raped. She then took up banditry in her own right and became a joint-leader, along with her then lover, of a section of the divided gang. Phoolan authorised the Behmai massacre of 1981, killing 22 upper-caste villagers, including two people who had abetted or witnessed (but not participated in) her gang-rape. Following this massacre, she became notorious nation-wide and was lionized as India's only woman bandit and supposedly gutsy low-caste-woman-underdog. She later surrendered and was tried for complicity in over 30 instances of murder and numerous other crimes. The trials were never concluded because the state government, in a controversial act, withdrew all cases against her; Phoolan, who had remained in jail for 11 years during the pendency of the trials, was released. She then contested elections as a candidate of the Samajwadi Party, whose government had withdrawn the cases again ...
London Allen & Unwin 1984 1st edition Hard cover Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Pages clean; binding tight; slight wear to edges of dust jacket.
Hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. ISBN 0049200976 9780049200975 [US]
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