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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... Newalkar when he saw the report , and afterwards , in 1770 , appointed him the sube- dar12 of Jhansi . Possibly Peshwa Madhavrao I was con- vinced of the competence of the Newalkars from watch- ing the progress of Parola . Raghunath ...
... Newalkars was in Parola , part of Khandesh . Parola is located to the south - west of Jalgaon and Bhusawal . Raghunath Rao , the founder of the New- alkar line , lived in Parola . In 1857 , descendants of Ragh- unath Rao's eldest son ...
... Newalkars . According to the custom of the day , hand- written manuscripts would be kept bound in expensive silk and brocade . There were at least 20 copies of various sizes of the Bhagavadgita . Some nights she read the Gita before ...