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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... Bengali of short fiction and novels ; a deeply political social activist who has been working with and for tribals ... Bengal ; it is also an overdue recognition of the importance of her contribution to the literary and cul- tural ...
... Bengal was rocked by these ongoing revolts . In one single day 1,500 Santhals were killed in Palarpur , Birbhum . The memory of it still lives in songs : What is this paddy , What water Do we farm the land with ? Not water , no , not ...
... Bengal Sikh Police Station , on the unrest of the Bengal Army , written in Urdu and translated by Captain T. Rattray : As far as I can recall , the first discontentment of the sepoys towards the British was shown on the way to Kabul ...