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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Mahāśvetā Debī. Khande Rao Ramchandra Rao ( I ) Ananda Rao ( 1 ) Haribhau Sakharam THE NEWALKAR LINEAGE Raghunath Hari ( I ) Founder Hari Damodar Damodar Rao Sadashiv Rao Raghunath Hari ( II ) the first Subedar of Jhansi ( 1770-94 ) ...
... Rao and Kishen Rao came to Ellis with renewed claims . Sadashiv Rao was the distant cousin ( nephew ) of Gangadhar Rao and the great grand- son of Sadashivpanth , uncle of Shivrao Bhau . After Gangadhar Rao's death , he could be ...
... Rao's stipend . This will stop at Lakshman Rao's death . Lakshman Rao's life needs further discussion here . He once consulted Vrindavan Lal Varma , the celebrated author and advocate from Jhansi , about the money that 302 MAHASWETA DEVI.