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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... army camp in Jhansi was smouldering with discontent . There were 400 infantry men with bayonets in the 12th Regiment Native Infantry ( Left wing ) and 219 riders of the 14th - regular Cavalry ( Right wing ) in Jhansi . Captain Dunlop of ...
... army officers were keeping an eye on the sepoys of Jhansi . Captain Dunlop learnt from his spies that the rebel leaders ( names withheld ) had frequently been sending incendiary letters to his army division . These letters always bore ...
... army . He had proved his worth in many different battles in Ireland , Syria , Crimea , and Sebastopol and had been ... army brigades of the Central India Field Force on 17 December 1857. The first , the newly named Malwa Field ...