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This paper scrutinises four, little-known, 19th century "Mutiny" novels, illuminating their fascinating diversities, as well as the politics of representation. It reveals how some of these texts cast the rani of Jhansi as cruel and licentious, situating her role in the Rebellion within contemporary colonial stereotypes. However, two unusual novels, Philip Meadows Taylor's Seeta (1872) and Michael White's lesser-known Lachmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi (1901), interestingly enough, drew upon the paradigm of the warrior-woman and projected her as a fearless freedom fighter in a manner that surprisingly fed into later Indian nationalist iconography. This paper seeks to study inscriptions of the rani of Jhansi in a few colonial novels of the 19th and very early 20th centuries which touch upon the subject of the rani and the theme of the Rebellion of 1857. It seeks to probe the diversities of representations as well as perceptual shifts in these fictional works which were written during the period 1870s to 1900. These texts are by no means approached as "accurate" portrayals of the rani; rather they are "constructions", or ideologically-loaded projections of reality instead of "reflections" of

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Author

Indrani Sen

Publisher

Economic and Political Weekly

Published

2007

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Indian History, Humanities