The Queen of JhansiSeagull Books, 2010 - 325 من الصفحات Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, a legendary Indian heroine, led her troops against the British in the uprising of 1857, which is now widely described as the first Indian War of Independence. The image of the young warrior queen who died on the battlefield but not in the minds of her people captured the imagination of novelist Mahasweta Devi, who undertook extensive research that encompassed family reminiscence, oral literature, local histories, and more traditional sources. From these she wove a very personal history of a heroine--an unusual woman, widowed at an early age, who grew from a free-spirited child into an independent young leader. Devi's resulting work traces the history of the growing resistance to the British, while building a detailed picture of Lakshmibai as a complex, spirited, full-blooded woman who wears her long tresses unbound at the same time as she prefers a male attire on horseback; who is a cool-headed and far-sighted leader of men, full of warm concern for her soldiers; as well as a mother who worries about her infant son's well-being. Simultaneously a history, a biography, and an imaginative work of fiction, this book is a valuable contribution to the reclamation of history and historiography by feminist writers. |
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... Banda . It was heard that he was bringing his 9,000 daredevil sol- diers to Kalpi . The Queen waited , full of hope ... Banda on 22 March and reached there on 19 April . His gun - bearing infantry were waiting inside the moat by the ...
... Banda fought with Whitlock for seven hours . On the point of being defeated , he decided to lose no more soldiers and set off towards Kalpi with his 9,000 men . He was overjoyed to hear that the Queen was in Kalpi already . The Nawab of ...
... Banda had almost overpowered Robertson after the defeat of the Queen . So he kept on fighting while waiting for Rao Saheb's arrival . Meanwhile , Rao Saheb had disappeared to the west with the Gwalior Contingent and other divisions ...