Bhanwari Devi

Bhanwari Devi is an Indian woman, whose alleged gang rape in 1992 and the subsequent court case attracted widespread media attention nationally and internationally.

Bhanwari Devi is a so-called low-caste potter woman from Bhateri, a small Rajasthani village located 55 km from the state capital Jaipur. In the 1980s, the child marriages were common in the village, and the caste system was dominant. Most of the villagers belonged to the conservative Gurjar community, which is higher in the caste hierarchy than the Kumhar caste, to which Bhanwari Devi belongs.