Mala Sen

Mala Sen
Born(1947-06-03)3 June 1947
Mussoorie, United Provinces, British India
Died21 May 2011(2011-05-21) (aged 63)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian–British
Other namesMala Dhondy
EducationWelham Girls' School
Occupation(s)Writer, human rights activist
Notable workIndia's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi (1991);
Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India (2001)
SpousesFarrukh Dhondy (m. 1968; div. 1976)

Mala Sen (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was a Bengali-Indian-British writer and human rights activist. As an activist, she was known for her civil rights activism and race relations work in London during the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the British Asian and British Black Panthers movements,[1] and later her women's rights activism in India. As a writer, she was known for her book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi, which led to the acclaimed 1994 film Bandit Queen. After researching the oppression of women in rural India, she also published Death by Fire in 2001.[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference huffington was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Kotak, Ash (13 June 2011). "Mala Sen obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Mala Sen". The Telegraph. 30 May 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2016.