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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... Kunch under the leadership of the Queen . The Queen of Jhansi was the leader in Kunch . Tatia Topi never mentioned any previous connection with the Queen . The results of their struggle would have turned out quite different if they had ...
... Kunch , they notified him about the Queen and Tatia Topi's 500 vilayati , Afghan and Kotah cavalry and infantry waiting at Kunch with guns and cannons so that Hugh Rose could not proceed towards Kalpi . Kunch was insignificant as a town ...
... Kunch and Major Orr had also joined him after his skirmish with the Kings of Banpur and Shahgarh . At dawn on 6 May , Hugh Rose set off towards Kunch . The Queen had constructed a moat around the township of Kunch and the rebel sepoys ...