Namaste
Chhoti si umar by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, title song to the movie Bandit Queen (1994) directed by Shekhar Kapur.
It means "girlchild marriage".
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuHpUuZwD-A
This song is the version from the movie and was the title song to the film on the bandit Phoolan Devi. In fact, however, it is based on and from a much older Rajastani folk song.
The first version is with words. There is alsp a version with no words but only a wake.
I am not taking sides regarding Phoolan Devi. But the song is quite remarkable. Enjoy. Above is a photo of Phoolan in 1983 at her surrender to authorities where she laid down her rifle to the local murti of Durga.
Next is a photo of her later, with the personal friend and associate of her's, 1992 author Roy Moxham. I have a copy of his book in my library ("Outlaw").
The movie tells the story Phoolan Devi who was a dacoit and killed several village leaders who were involved in her rape, and she was for a time one of two leaders of a notorious militarized bandit gang, sent to prison in 1983 and freed in 1994, she was turned into a legend by the Indian press. Though she was "larger than life" in the imaginations and mind of the public, she was a very small women. After prison, she entered into the politics and was assassinated in 2001.
Om Namah Sivaya