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The Gulabi Gang (from Hindi gulabi, "pink") is a female vigilante group in India. Sampat Pal Devi started the group in 2006 in Banda District , Uttar Pradesh . [ 1 ] The group is dedicated to empowering women of all castes and protecting them from domestic violence , sexual violence , and oppression .
The Gulabi Gang is an extraordinary women’s movement formed in 2006 by Sampat Pal Devi in the Banda District of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India.
Mar 4, 2014 · Gulabi Gang: India’s women warriors. An all-women vigilante group captures popular imagination by wielding sticks and taking on villains. The Gulabi Gang now boasts of 400,000 members...
History. One day when Sampat Pal Devi, a simple woman living in a village in Northern India, saw a man mercilessly beating his wife. She pleaded with him to stop but he abused her as well. The next day she returned with a bamboo stick and five other women and gave the rogue a sound thrashing.
- A Little Background
- History
- Work
- Flowers and Flames
- Power Is A Shade of Pink
The unofficial headquarters of the Gang is at Badausa in Banda district, Uttar Pradesh. UP is notorious for instances of sexual violence against women. The latest available NCRB data from 2017 places UP fourth in being unsafe for women. There were 3025 reported cases of rape in 2017 and, 15898 cases of kidnapping and 2473 reported cases of dowry de...
The group traces its origins to a day, in 2006, when Sampat Pal Devi saw a man beating his wife. Her pleas for him to stop ended with her being abused as well. The very next day she returned with a lathi and five other women and gave the rogue a sound thrashing. The news spread, and soon women started approaching Sampat Pal Devi requesting similar ...
In the last 13 years, Gulabi Gang has been fighting all forms of violence against women. They’ve prevented child marriages, arranged love-marriages, and ensured delivery of basic rights for the poorest of the poor. They also encourage and oversee community activities that bring together women. The gang has also actively protested against multiple i...
The first known instance of the group using force as a weapon to “protect the powerless” was in 2007. A Dalit woman was raped by a man of a higher caste and the rapist was left scot-free. The villagers and relatives protested to no avail and many of them were put into prison for doing so. The Gulabi Gang took action, charged into the police station...
Suman Singh, a later commander of the gang, says that when “a woman seeks the membership of Gulabi Gang, it is because she has suffered injustice, has been oppressed and does not see any other recourse. All our women can stand up to the men and if need be, seek retribution through lathis.” To this day, the sight of the women in flaming pink generat...
Jul 27, 2023 · Born out of one of India’s poorest regions, the Gulabi Gang emerged as a women-led vigilante movement with the aim of supporting women suffering from domestic abuse. In 2006, Sampat Pal Devi saw a woman being abused by her husband.
Dressed in a bright pink sari and armed with a lathi (bamboo stick), 55-year old Sampat Pal seems an unlikely adversary for corrupt policemen, crooked politicians and abusive husbands. Yet this extraordinary woman leads the 20,000-strong Gulabi Gang in India: a grassroots female vigilante group fighting against women's oppression and injustice.
