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The Rani of Jhansi : gender, history, and fable in India / Harleen Singh, Braandeis University.
Van Pelt Library DS475.2.L34 S55 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singh, Harleen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, 1828-1858--Military leadership.
- Lakshmibai.
- Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, 1828-1858.
- Colonization.
- History.
- Masculinity--Political aspects.
- Masculinity.
- Women revolutionaries.
- Historiography.
- Command of troops.
- India--History--Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858--Historiography.
- India.
- 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--India--History.
- Nationalism--India--History.
- Nationalism.
- India--Colonization--History.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- Literature.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Legends.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107042803
- 1107042801
- OCLC:
- 870439212
- Publisher Number:
- 99958955308
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