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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... Orchha and Datia . It should be remembered that almost all of Bundelkhand was part of Orchha once . After the Maratha occupation , the boun- daries of Orchha shrank severely . The Rajput King Vik- ramjit of Orchha made a truce with the ...
... Orchha and Jhansi lingered long after the battle . Hugh Rose blockaded Jhansi city and the fort in March that year . Just before his troops arrived , Jhansi was under attack by Orchha . Thomas Lowe wrote , A few days before our ...
... Orchha should be scrutinized . Erskine himself hand- ed the governing of Jhansi over to the Queen . Yet when he presented his weekly report to the higher authorities about the internal strife , it clearly stated that the Queen had been ...