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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Mahāśvetā Debī. Upon my victory over Chirkhari , the kings of Banpur and Shahgarh , Dewan Deshpat , Daulat Singh , Kuchwa Kharwala and many others joined me while Hugh Rose was engaged in the siege of Jhansi . During my stay in Chirkhari ...
... Chirkhari was loyal to the English . Canning had felt the need to send help but it had been impossible for him to send soldiers to Chirkhari then . So he was obliged to instruct Whitlock to contact Hugh Rose and for both of them to quit ...
... Chirkhari . The soldiers in his command were suddenly thrown into chaos at this inexplicable behaviour . Only the Queen's presence of mind and excellent military tactics saved the remaining Indian fighters from further confu- sion . She ...