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Singh, Harleen,

The Rani of Jhansi : gender, history, and fable in India / Harleen Singh, Braandeis University. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Enslaving masculinity : rape scripts and the erotics of power -- India's Aryan queen : colonial ambivalence and race in the mutiny -- Coherent pasts in Hindi literature and film -- Unmaking the nationalist archive : Gender and Dalit historiography.

"Contributes to an understanding of the various agendas that are at stake in the use of the Rani of Jhansi as a figure of nationalist Indian history and imperial British narrative"--



ISBN: 9781316093351

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, 1828-1858 --Military leadership.
Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, 1828-1858 --In literature.
Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, 1828-1858 --In motion pictures.
Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, 1828-1858 --Legends.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women revolutionaries--India--Biography.
Masculinity--Political aspects--History.--India
Nationalism--History.--India

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic Books.

LC Class. No.: DS475 / .R365 2014