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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... miles from east to west , and 60 miles from north to south . Year after year , plows futilely wounded this tiny king- dom's mountainous and infertile breast in an effort to make the earth speak the language of the harvest . Hoping for ...
... miles south of Agra ; 245 miles to the west on the road from Allahabad to Banda , and 740 miles north west of Calcutta . The inhabitants would proudly say about the pros- perous city of Jhansi : Down there is Poona ; up there , Kashi ...
... miles . The city was four and a half miles wide . To the south , where the fortress was nearly impregnable , stood two small hillocks of medium height , 645 yards away . One was called Kapu Tikri . Several English civilian officers ...