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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... Ellis was approaching with the medical officer of the British army camp , Dr Allen . The king was already unconscious . Moropant saw the Queen's face and gestured ' No ' to the rider , who sped back on his horse with the information ...
... Ellis and Captain Martin went to the palace to convey their condolences to the grieving Queen . Then they visited the fort where the gov- ernment treasury as well as the prisoners were . Ellis sealed the lock of the vault , with the ...
... ( Ellis ) . The novel was named The Rane . Shakespeare , in this book , is , in fact , Ellis . The Queen was represented as a wayward woman with a mur- derous and vile character . The author's goal was to show a depraved version of a ...