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"--
9781316093351
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.
Women revolutionaries--India--Biography. Masculinity--Political aspects--History.--India Nationalism--History.--India