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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... Rani Lakshmibai standing still as a painting on the fort wall . An unbeliever would say , " That's impossible . ' He would retort , ' You just don't know , that's all . The Queen hasn't died ! Baisaheba jarur jinda houni . ' Then where is ...
... Rani Lakshmibai . If for a hundred years ordinary people have known that in her hands , soil turned into brave soldiers , wood became swords , and mountains got transformed to speedy horses , what kind of woman could she have been ? We ...
... Rani Lakshmibai in a let- ter that she was determined to fight the English . Rao Sahab , the nephew of Nana Saheb Peshwa , was in Kalpi then . He came to Jaipur and gave me permission to go to the Queen's help . On my way to Jhansi , I ...