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  2. Rani of Jhansi - Wikipedia

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    The Rani of Jhansi appears commanding a relief force by the end of the novel when the protagonists are besieged in the capital of Assam. Jhansi ki Rani, [56] viz. The Queen of Jhansi, of Vrindavan Lal Verma, 1946, which inspired the 1953 homonym film The Tiger and the Flame. Nightrunners of Bengal, a 1951 novel in English by John Masters.

  3. Wikipedia : VideoWiki/Rani of Jhansi

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    According to another tradition Rani Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, dressed as a cavalry leader, was badly wounded; not wishing the British to capture her body, she told a hermit to burn it. After her death a few local people cremated her body. [28] [29]

  4. Jhansi Ki Rani (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Jhansi ki Rani is a poem by Hindi poet Subhadra Kumari Chauhan. The poem narrates the tale of Rani Lakshmibai and her fight against the British forces in the 1857 Indian Rebellion . The heroic poetry depicting Lakshmibai became a source of inspitation during later independence movement , was recited on stage, during morning processions and is ...

  5. Jhalkaribai - Wikipedia

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    She is referred to in the novel Jhansi ki Rani written in 1951 by B. L. Varma, who created a subplot in his novel about Jhalkaribai. He addressed Jhalkaribai as Korin and an extraordinary soldier in Laxmibai's army. Ram Chandra Heran Bundeli novel Maati, published in the same year, depicted her as "chivalrous and a valiant martyr". The first ...

  6. Women of the Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    At the height of the Siege of Jhansi, she disguised herself as the queen and fought on her behalf, on the front, allowing the queen to escape safely out of the fort. [10] She died during the battle. [11] [12] Rani Lakshmibai (19 November 1828 — 18 June 1858) was the queen consort of Jhansi State, a princely state of Jhansi in the Maratha ...

  7. Central Indian campaign of 1858 - Wikipedia

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    Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi. The area known to the British at the time as Central India now consists of the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.A large part of it was included in the region of Bundelkhand named after its former Bundela rulers.

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    A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...

  9. Damodar Rao of Jhansi - Wikipedia

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    The point from where Rani Lakshmibai jumped with her horse, Sarangi and young Damodar Rao, according to legend, marked at Jhansi Fort. After the death of Rani Lakshmibai at Kotah ki Sarai in Gwalior on 18 June 1858, he survived that battle and, lived with his mentors in the jungle, in dire poverty.