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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... soldiers on duty in Jhansi . Ellis was more farsighted than Martin . It was not possible to assemble a great number of soldiers just yet . People might be suspicious . So he replied : For your information , the only objective of post ...
... soldiers . Three miles away , another great army division under the leadership of Tatia Topi was waiting in reserve . Tatia Topi fought on elephantback , bear- ing the Peshwa flag . When he saw his first division defeat- ed , he ordered ...
... soldiers into rebellion and then the Contingent could go off to Agra right away . His response was to try to calm them with a false promise : he rewarded them with three months ' salary and vowed to create a free Indian division very ...