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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... gates of Orchha , there was constantly someone or the other delivering a speech . Some of the Indians under siege inside the fort became anxious to get out . An attendant of Captain Burgess was removing the stone from the entrance of a gate ...
... gates of the city . The Queen herself , in her Pathan attire , supervised everything . The southern side of the fort ... Gate to be crucial , the Queen went to manage it herself . Nathe Khan had assem- bled most of his forces ...
... gates . Among them , the eight principal ones were the Orchha , Datia , Sainwar , Bhandir , Lach- hmi , Khanderao , Onao , and Sagar gates . Each gate had a tower and wide ramparts on both sides , with adequate fighting space on top for ...