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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.
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 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.
A documentary was released in 2012 called Gulabi Gang, which displays the everyday conflicts and complexities that Pal Devi and these women face in India. Notions of resistance, gender equality, and the overall landscape of gender relations in India are explored in the film.
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.
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...
Nov 26, 2007 · BBC News, Banda. The 'pink' gang has staged protests against corrupt officials. They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes. The several hundred...
Mar 22, 2023 · The Gulabi Gang members, wearing pink saris as their signature attire, fighting against oppression with a pink baton in hand, came up as a response to widespread domestic abuse and violence ...
Jun 10, 2022 · The Gulabi Gang. In the early 2000s, Sampat Pal Devi, a villager from India's Uttar Pradesh state, started a women's rights group which now has thousands of followers across the country. Show...
