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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... began to look critical , Raines began to retreat . The 10th Regiment Infantry guarded the rear of his division . Major Vialls then joined the retreating Raines and they went together towards Kampu . But the English had to proceed under ...
... began to break up at the end of two hours . The entire army of Indians retreated rapidly to the parade grounds of Phulbag . Phulbag had no walls around - it then . So the areas to its front and back were also known as Phulbag . As ...
... began . But having written 400 pages , I suddenly felt that I was not getting at the heart of the matter . All that I had writ- ten till then was rubbish . So I tore up those pages and instantly decided that I had to go to Jhansi ...