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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... women's troop . On the palace grounds , she would practise malkhamba or climbing up a wooden pole and wrestling with the women . Marking coconut trees with white for targets , they would practise pistol - shooting with the women in the ...
... women so that they would be fit for military duty . The eyewitnesses among the English were astonished to see women do everything from repairing the rampart walls , erecting platforms for cannons , to supplying cannon balls and ...
... women lost their lives in this manner , as wit- nessed by Keshav Bhaskar . The British historians reported that neither the English nor the Indian soldiers fighting for the British ever touched the women . But Keshav Bhaskar reported ...