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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.
Meet India’s ‘pink-saree crusaders’, the rod wielding vigilantes that strike fear into the hearts of potential abusers through the power of unity and sisterhood – The Gulabi Gang. For the last thirteen years, Sampatpal Devi and her gang have been relentlessly pursuing one vision.
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 spread...
The Gulabi Gang kept a watch on all community activities and protested vociferously when they saw any manifestation of injustice or malpractice. On one occasion, when Sampat Pal went to the local police station to register a complaint, a policeman abused and attacked her.
Gulabi Gang started by Sampat in the hinterlands of Uttar Pradesh –in Bundelkhand region -the underbelly of UP. It is one among the poorest 200 districts in India which were first targeted for the federal government’s massive jobs-for-work programme.
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.
Jan 25, 2015 · The Gulabi Gang in India is challenging the caste system, empowering women and crusading for the rights of the poor, but some question whether it can drive real and lasting cultural change.
Jun 11, 2022 · The Gulabi Gang were originally vigilantes who fought back with sticks against wife-beaters, rapists and corrupt police officers. Now a more mainstream organisation, the Gulabi...
