The Queen of JhansiLakshmibai, 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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In anticipation , she filled her days with work and passed nights devoid of sleep . Who knows what she thought or wondered about ! What fitful emotions kept the fire burning in her mind night after night ?
He waited there in person all night long with his troops . It is easy to guess what conditions in besieged Jhansi were like on the night of 31 March . The night was one of high excitement for the English as well .
He further remembered the nights of fight- ing and excitement in the fort . ... Then came that dark night when he fled away on horseback in his mother's arms . Many people had said many things about his mother to him .