The Rani of Jhansi : gender, history, and fable in India

Author/Creator:

Singh, Harleen, author

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The Rani of Jhansi : gender, history, and fable in India / Harleen Singh, Braandeis University

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

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--India--History
Nationalism--India--History
Masculinities
Gender expression
Gender
India--History--Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858--Historiography
India--Colonization--History
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947

Description/Summary

Table of 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.

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"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990034875900302486

ISBN:

9781107042803 (hardback)
1107042801 (hardback)

OCLC Number:

870439212

Barcode:

010002823750