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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... fort of Rathgarh , on top of a hill by the river Vina . The road was through an impregnable forest . Vina flows from east to west . The forest and a 20 - feet wide ditch at the foot of the fort kept its northern side well protected ...
... fort's great well . North of Shankar Qila was Bagicha Tower or the fort's garden . The Queen had set up an arse- nal for the manufacture of cannon balls , gunpowder and so on right inside the fort . The Queen completed preparations to ...
... fort stood on a low hill , and the cannons installed in its tall spires watched over the surroundings . On the fort wall , there was room for the artillery men to stand and square openings in twos and threes for shooting guns . Except ...