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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... British just as Shivrao Bhau did , will be recognized . In 1817 , the British made a treaty with Shivrao Bhau's grandson , Ramchandra Rao . In the second section of that pact , Ramchandra Rao's children and inheritors were acknowledged ...
... British , with its pos- session the internal administration of Bundel- khand would improve in general . The only objective of annexing of Jhansi to the British ter- ritory was as a favour to its people . This will be clearly manifest ...
... British uprisings all over Malwa , Indore , Gwalior , Banda , Garoakota , Banpur , Chirkhari , Chanderi , Shahgarh and Rathgarh had shaken British sovereignty . Even the devo- tion of the powerful feudal kings of Gwalior , Indore ...