Sampat pal devi biography of barack obama

Indian activist

Sampat Pal Devi is an Indian social activist from the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, North India.^[1] She is founder of the Gulabi Gang, an Uttar Pradesh-based social organisation, works for women welfare and empowerment.^[2][3] She was participant of Colors TV's reality show Bigg Boss 6.^[4]

Background

Sampat Pal Devi founded the Gulabi Gang to further the cause of women's rights.^[5] It developed into an organised women's movement with as many as 270,000 members spread over several districts in Uttar Pradesh.

The women wear Gulabi (pink) saris and arm themselves with bamboo sticks, which they use whenever they come up against violent resistance.^[6][7]

Pal described her early life in an autobiography written with the collaboration of the French journalist Anne Berthod.^[8] According to a BBC report, Banda district is a “highly caste-ridden, feudalistic a