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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... palace . Hugh Rose then went on to occupy the other areas of the city . In no instance did the Indians yield an inch ... palace , fierce battles ensued between the Queen's cavalry and the English . When the English found her three ...
... palace was set on fire . The tame deer and peacocks in the garden adjacent to the palace died in that conflagration . The main building of Jhansi's famous palace was completely burnt except for just a small portion to one side . Then ...
... palace with their babies in their arms . The palace housed seven or eight large wells . The huge well where the horses were bathed was called Gajtalao or the Elephant Tank as it was very wide . When the palace buildings caught fire ...