E70: Bandit Queen

This week Beth and Wendy talk about Phoolan Devi, aka Bandit Queen. She was part of a gang of bandits in India in the 70’s and 80’s who robbed trains, sacked villages, kidnapped and, yes, they murdered people.

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Footnotes

Articles/Websites

Wikipedia contributors. (01/27/2020). Phoolan Devi. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 01/27/2020 from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phoolan_Devi&oldid=937819801

The Life and Legend of India’s Bandit Queen. Roads and Kingdoms. Retrieved 01/25/2020 from https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2017/indias-bandit-queen/

Weaver, Mary Anne. (November 1996). India’s Bandit Queen. The Atlantic. Retrieved 01/25/2020 from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/11/indias-bandit-queen/304890/

Sen, Mriganka. (08/10/15). Remembering The Bandit Queen. India Today. Retreived 01/25/2020 from https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/remembering-the-bandit-queen-10-things-to-know-about-phoolan-devi-287450-2015-08-10

The Guardian. (07/26/01). The Queen is Dead. Retrieved 01/26/2020 from https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,527406,00.html

Podcasts

Witness History. Phoolan Devi – Bandit Queen. BBC News World Service.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xnxny

Female Criminals. Phoolan Devi Part 1 & 2. Parcast Network.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/parcast/female-criminals/e/56325692#/

Telfer, Tori. Criminal Broads. Episode 11: Rebel of the Ravines: Phoolan Devi.
https://www.criminalbroads.com/episodes/2018/10/3/episode-11-rebel-of-the-ravines-phoolan-devi

Video

The Story Behind. (02/27/19).The Life Of India’s “Bandit Queen” Phoolan Devi.
https://youtu.be/aTPnTy88Tas

Phoolan film (not yet finished)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306681010/phoolan
https://phoolandevimovie.com/about/the-movie/
https://youtu.be/kzNSqOXSxJU

History

BBC News. (06/19/19). What is India’s caste system? Retrieved 01/25/2020 from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616

Chakravorty, Sanjoy. (06/19/19). Viewpoint: How the British reshaped India’s caste system. BBC News. Retrieved 01/25/2020 from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48619734

SBS News. (01/09/15). What is the Caste System? Retrieved 01/26/2020 from https://www.sbs.com.au/news/factbox-what-is-the-caste-system

Agrawal, Ravi. (02/23/16). India’s caste system: Outlawed, but still omnipresent. CNN. Retrieved 01/27/2020 from https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/asia/india-caste-system/index.html

How Not to Get Murdered

Bach, Natasha. (01/14/2020). Am I Registered to Vote? Fortune. Retrieved 01/28/2020 from https://fortune.com/2020/01/14/am-i-registered-to-vote-voter-registration-deadlines-2020-how-to-check/

Crime News

Papantonis, Nicholas. (10/08/2019). ABC 15 Investigates: Police reports show Jason Pope’s criminal history. ABC 15 News. Retrieved 1/23/2020 from https://wpde.com/news/abc15-investigates/police-records-florence-dj-may-have-been-having-sex-with-underage-girls-since-2011

Shout Outs

Hip Hop Evolution
https://www.netflix.com/title/80141782

Finding Cleo
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/findingcleo

The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open
https://www.netflix.com/title/81177504

While Black Podcast
https://whileblackpodcast.podbean.com/

Music

“Abyss” by Alasen: ●https://soundcloud.com/alasen●https://twitter.com/icemantrap ●https://instagram.com/icemanbass/●https://soundcloud.com/therealfrozenguy●
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

“Furious Freak”, “Jalandhar” and “Naraina” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License