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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... Bundela King Malkhan Singh , came to power following the death of his father . Rudrapratap established Orchha as his capital in 1531 , and it was he who made this negligible town prosper and thrive . The King of Orchha did not pay ...
... Bundela and Thakur troops . The Queen was allowed only 250 horsemen clad in red shirts to protect the north- ern edge of Kalpi . Rao Saheb kept the entire battalion of the Gwalior Contingent under his command . It is obvious from this ...
... Kudara's Lakshmi Bai ka Raso , Kavi Bhupatlal's Virangana Raso , Gode - lal Tiwadi's Bundelkhand ka Sankshipt Itihas , Vrindavanlal Verma's Maharani Lakshmibai and Shyamranga Misra's Bundela ka Shur Kahani . THE QUEEN OF JHANSI 325.