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Indian female dacoit

For Mahatma Gandhi's mother, see Putlibai Gandhi.

The Putli Bai (Hindi: पुतली बाई) (1926^[1] or 1929 - 1958) was a dreaded female dacoit, often known by the epithet "Indian bandit queen"..

She was the first female dacoit of India.^[2] Her area of dacoity was the famed Chambal valley, which remained for a long time a stronghold of dacoits. Supposedly, she never wanted to be a dacoit, but became so because of excessive cruetly meted out upon her time and again, and dacoity - kind of - became her last resort.^[2]

She was born as Gauhar Bano in a small village in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh.^[3] Gradually as she became famous in the world of dancing, she began to be called Putlibai.

The name appears to be a reference to a typical Indian puppet, who is made to dance by a hidden artist.^[4] Another conjecture is that she used to slither as smoothly as the pupils of an eye, and hence the nam