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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... live in complete comfort all their lives . 11. I do not know how much of a stipend would be enough for the Queen . It is expedient to remem- ber that the rulers of Jhansi are among the last Maratha lines of Bundelkhand . Peshwa Bajirao ...
... live , I will do credit to your name . She spoke , says the poet Vichar , until she won them over . The lady said , I promise your widows shall have bread . At the cost of their lives , the soldiers fought with renewed vigour . The ...
... lives . In every case , the Afghans fought with courage and terrific skill until death . Keshav Bhaskar Tambe was present in Jhansi at that time . He was the custodian of the portion of Gangadhar's Parola jagir owned by the Newalkars ...