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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... March . The English gave the name ' Whistling Dick ' to the cannon Garnala . By noon on 23 March the cannons of Jhansi were temporarily silent but the next day they began to roar anew . Gulam Ghaus Khan was the supervisor of all the ...
... March , the ' siege train ' of the First Brigade arrived . From several batteries installed in the west , south , and east , Hugh Rose attempted to weaken the south tower with a constant barrage of cannon fire . Between 26 and 29 March ...
... March , a messenger showed up to announce that Tatia Topi was advancing towards Jhansi from the north with at least 20,000 soldiers . On 31 March , Tatia Topi had set fire to the dry bush- es and shrubs on the north bank of Betwa to ...