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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... Damodar and said ' This is the very boy for whom our Bai Saheba fought ! ' He then caringly brought Damodar to Paton . Although uttering the name of the Queen of Jhansi was forbidden all over India , Raja Prithvi Singh of Paton greeted ...
... Damodar would receive the five lakh rupees lying in the Jhansi treasury and the royal khasgi at the time of Gangadhar Rao's death and Jhansi's annexation . Ganga- dhar also owned houses in Parola , Kashi and Poona . But Damodar found ...
... Damodar to get married . But even that would require money . The British govern- ment refused to give any monetary ... Damodar married to the daughter of Vasudevrao Bhatt of Indore . But the girl died in 1872 . Damodar was married again ...