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A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of Indias women. In Uttar Pradeshknown as the badlands of Indiaa womans life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home of a powerful local legislator. In a region plagued by corruption, an incident like this might have gone unnoticedexcept that it captured the attention of Sampat Pal, leader of Indias infamous Gulabi Pink Gang. Poor and illiterate, married off around the age of twelve, pregnant with her first child at fifteen, and prohibited from attending school, Sampat Pal has risen to become the courageous commander and chief of a womens brigade numbering in the tens of thousands.