LACHMI BAI
Lachmi Bai
Rani
of
Jhansi
The
Jeanne D'Arc
of India
By
Michael
White
New York
J. F. Taylor & Company
1901
COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY
J. F. TAYLOR AND
COMPANY, NEW YORK
Press of
Riggs Printing Company
Albany, N. Y.
To
my wife
The RANI of JHANSI
"Being young, vigorous, and not afraid to show herselfto the multitude, she gained a great influence overthe hearts of the people. It was this influence, this forceof character, added to a splendid and inspiring courage,that enabled her to offer a desperate resistance to theBritish.... Whatever her faults in British eyesmay have been, her countrymen will ever believe that shewas driven by ill-treatment into rebellion; that her causewas a righteous cause. To them she will always be aheroine."
"History of the Indian Mutiny."
LACHMI BAI
No gilded dome, nor fairy minarets against the azure skies,
Proclaim the place, where she, called by her foes, the "bravest and the best,"
Was laid by reverential hands to her victorious rest:
But in the eternal sanctuary of her race,
The holy river, holy Mother Ganges, that coveted embrace,
Doth hold her ashes, and for a monument to her name,
Sufficeth it, that in the people's hearts, her fame,
Doth shine immortal. For she was deeply loved, this Queen,
The beauteous, valiant Rani, India's great heroine.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Before the Storm | 1 |
| II. | The Hour at Hand | 18 |
| III. | By the Voice of the People... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |