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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The number of edu- cated English officers was significantly low compared to the growth in the number of soldiers retained for the upkeep and supervision of the native Indian states . Army officers had been appointed to administrative ...
The cantonment lay to the south , out- side the city , where army officers ' quarters , encampments , the jail and the Star Fort lay . The latter , a small star- shaped fort , was an armoury for cannon balls , gunpow- der , rations and ...
Each day 50 , 60 , even 100 men were captured and brought over , then tried by senior officers and hanged for helping the Queen . Moropant was brought to this trial and he said briefly : ' I was present in Jhansi in June 1857 ...