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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... later , realizing it was a futile pursuit , he eventually gave up . Damodar Rao was a pawn of history . Destiny had toyed with him . Vasudev gave him up for adoption hoping he would ascend the throne of Jhansi . Later , knowing of the ...
... later . His health failed with advancing age . The research he had done for 30 years , with his dream of writing a biogra- phy of the Queen , was waiting to be published . He had been an enthusiastic member of the Indian History Cong ...
... later I was again retrenched for being ' found surplus ' ... I didn't know what to do then . For a brief period I even tried selling powders used for dying fabric , door - to - door in the Bhawanipur area . The Punjabis who bought the ...