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Cargando... Outlaw: India's Bandit Queen and Me (edición 2010)por Roy Moxham (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a biography of India's Phoolan Devi who became an outlaw after being brutalized by higher caste men and sought revenge while becoming a heroine to low caste peoples. After serving time in prison she was released and became a politician only to be the victim of assassination. The author was an archivist in Britain who, for some inexplicable reason, wrote her a letter while she was in prison. He befriended her and travelled to India many times on her behalf. Moxham's actions leave one scratching their head, but he sheds light on a notable person and India's social dilemmas that are not well known in the West. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In June 1992, author Roy Moxham did a very strange thing- he wrote to a bandit in an Indian jail. Phoolan Devi was the controversial and charismatic 'Bandit Queen' hailed as a modern-day Robin Hood in the villages surrounding Delhi. In revenge for her own gang rape, her followers killed 20 high-caste Indians, which led to her surrender and imprisonment. Struck by her story and appalled by her plight, Roy Moxham helped Phoolan Devi obtain justice, offered her encouragement when she became an MP in India on her release, and travelled with her for several years before she was finally gunned down in 2001. Based on the diaries that documented their extraordinary friendship, Moxham offers a fascinating portrait of a remarkable woman and reveals the hidden face of India. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Roy Moxham is fascinated with India and writes to Phoolan while she is in jail. Upon her release, he visits her and her family several times. I was never clear what his motivations were, and wish the book had been more about Phoolan's life instead of her times with him, helping him buy a house in India etc.
I couldn't warm up to the writer who opens the book by saying he was "ashamed" that people thought he was interested in a romantic or sexual relationship with Phoolan because she's "homely". I suspect he overplayed his importance to her and his role in things.
Also, the book contains a list of illustrations, but no actual illustrations. More frustration! ( )