Shanti devi biography

Indian woman (–)

For other uses, see Shanti Devi (disambiguation).

Shanti Devi (11 December – 27 December ), known as Lugdi Devi (18 January – 4 October ) in her alleged past life, was an Indian woman who claimed to remember her previous life and became the subject of reincarnation research. A commission set up by the Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi supported her claim, while another report by researcher Bal Chand Nahata disputed it. Subsequently, several other researchers interviewed her, and published articles and books about her.

Reincarnation claim

Shanti Devi was born in Delhi, India.^[1] As a young girl, she began to claim that she remembered details of a past life. According to these accounts, when she was about four years old, she told her parents that her real home was in Ma