The Most Dangerous Bandit In The World

  Within a few months, Phoolan, this time no longer a virgin, again returned to her parents. Shortly afterward, her in-laws returned the gifts that Phoolan's parents had given them and sent word that under no circumstances would they accept Phoolan back again. This was in 1979, and Phoolan was only a few months past her 16th birthday. She later claimed in her autobiography that her husband was a man of "very bad character". A wife leaving her husband, or being abandoned by her husband, is a serious taboo in rural India, and Phoolan was marked as a social outcast