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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... known as More- shwar Tambe , was born in 1811. It is not known exactly when Balwant died , but it was not before Moreshwar came of age and began to help in the affair of Chimnaji's descendants . Chimnaji Appa died in 1832 . The city of ...
... known without superb equestrian skills . In those days , the names of three riders were widely known in north India as connoisseurs of horses - Nana Dhundupanth , Baba Sahab Apte Gwaliorkar and the Queen of Jhansi . Tales abound about ...
... known was no more . Kashinath Hari Bhau , also known as Lala Bhau , was the son of an older uncle of Vasudev's , the natural father of Damodar . He was a tahsildar in Jhansi during 1857- 1858. His wife came from Jhansi to Indore in 1871 ...