Mafia Queens of India

Mafia Queens of India | By S. Hussain Zaidi & Velly Thevar | True Crime Stories of India’s Underworld Women

Format: Paperback

Pages: 236

Date of Release: 14 November 2025

In the history of the underworld, women were often dismissed. This book puts them back at the center.

From India’s leading true-crime chronicler S. Hussain Zaidi, along with Velly Thevar, Mafia Queens of India is a powerful, chilling, and deeply researched collection of real stories about women who shaped, ruled, and redefined India’s criminal underworld.

The journey begins with a shadowy figure known only as “Cleopatra”—once a trusted aide in Varadarajan Mudaliar’s crime empire, now living quietly but still commanding respect. Her story opens the door to many others:

• A gambling queen who built an empire with numbers.
• A drug trafficker whose everyday disguises fooled the smartest cops.
• A ruthless madam of Delhi’s G.B. Road, feared across the red-light district.
• A Chambal bandit seeking revenge in the ravines.
• A religious ponzi mastermind responsible for derailing millions of lives.
• A woman in colonial Amritsar whose fierce revenge shook the British Empire.

Written with the pace of a thriller and the rawness of field reporting, this book reveals the women who broke rules, rewrote systems, and sometimes paid with their lives. Each story exposes a truth rarely acknowledged: in the shadows of the mafia, the most dangerous figures are not always the ones expected.

A must-read for fans of true crime, investigative journalism, underworld history, women-centric non-fiction, and gritty real-life thrillers.

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