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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... joined the Queen to declare rebellion . Probyn : How did you know the Queen joined the rebellion as well ? Gulam Mohammad : As soon as he was besi- eged in the fort , my master Skene said , ' This must be the Queen's doing . She already ...
... joined the Banpur King there along with all his Afghan troops , and Khurai became a base . Thakur Mardan Singh reached Lalitpur in Jhansi with a few soldiers . After Lalitpur , he took over Balabehut . He was quite powerful in these ...
... joined by other Indians and all were marching towards Agra . Hearing this , a portion of the Contingent went across the Chambal river to join Tatia Topi . Sindhia had all the boats removed off the face of the rain - swollen Chambal so ...