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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... Queen had no rights to it , the English were to keep the khasgi in their custody until Damodar came of age . The English took over Jhansi after declaring Ganga- dhar Rao's adoption of Damodar Rao against the politi ... QUEEN OF JHANSI 79.
... Queen of Jhansi , it would come as no surprise at all . The Queen had not yet understood the reason for this duplicity on the part of the British government . She had only noticed their passivity during her struggle with Orchha . By ...
Mahāśvetā Debī. the Queen and then in secret , wrote , " The Queen of Orchha is an ally of the British and the Queen of Jhansi is a foe . The attack of Jhansi by Orchha is justifiable . ' Fortunately , the Queen of Jhansi figured out the ...