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The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India
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THE RANI OF JHANSIGender, History, and Fable in India
Harleen SinghHarleen Singh is Associate Professor of Literature, South Asian Studies, and Women’s Studiesat Brandeis University.
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Pages : xii+190pp
Year : 2014
Binding : Hardback
ISBN : 9781107042803
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Rani Lakshmi Bai is an iconic figure of thenationalist movement in India. Her fight against theimperialist power has a significant place in thecultural and feminist history of South Asia. She isconsidered not only a heroine, and a great warrior,but also a protector of her people in Jhansi. Herpictures on horseback, with her son tied to her backand a sword in one hand, represent her as anembodiment of feminine power or Shakti. This bookuses fictional, cinematic and popularrepresentations of the Rani to analyze theconvergence of colonial and postcolonial literary,historical, sexual and cultural imperatives in thefigure of this legendary woman.
This book also extends the discussion to whatconstitutes the gendered subaltern historicalarchive. By analyzing a range of literary andcinematic texts produced between 1857 and 2007,it tries to understand the various agendas that areat stake in the use of the Rani as a figure of
THE RANI OF JHANSIGender, History, and Fable in India
Harleen Singh
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nationalist Indian history and imperial Britishnarrative. There is also an attempt to comparerepresentations of the Rani in both these contexts.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Enslaving masculinity: Rape scripts and theerotics of power
3. India’s Aryan queen: Colonial ambivalenceand race in the mutiny
4. Coherent pasts in Hindi literature and film
5. Unmaking the nationalist archive:Mahasweta Devi and dalit historiography
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
