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Lachmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: The Jeanne D'Arc of India
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The RANI of JHANSI
"Being young, vigorous, and not afraid to show herself to the multitude, she gained a great influence over the hearts of the people. It was this influence, this force of character, added to a splendid and inspiring courage, that enabled her to offer a desperate resistance to the British.... Whatever her faults in British eyes may have been, her countrymen will ever believe that she was driven by ill-treatment into rebellion; that her cause was a righteous cause. To them she will always be a heroine."
KAYE AND MALLESON, "_History of the Indian Mutiny_."
Lachmi Bai
Within no peerless Taj Mahal her body lies, 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.
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