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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... brigades of the Central India Field Force on 17 December 1857. The first , the newly named Malwa Field Force , was in Mau , and the second brigade remained in Sihori . Led by C. S. Steuart of the Bombay Army , the first brigade in Mau ...
... Brigade to help those in the Second Brigade . The Queen and the Nawab of Banda , aware of the state of the Second Brigade , cheerfully mobilized their infantry and cannons on all four sides of Kalpi . Whoever went off to the villages to ...
... Brigade could safely pass through towards Golaoli . Then Major Orr was to pitch his tent by the side of the road in Tehri village in order to help with communications between the First and Second Brigades , and on 15 May , he was to ...