Remembering them, 150 years later
“Our opinion is that there ought not to be rule of foreigners in India…”
from a letter written by Lakshmibai to the Raja of Banpur (via)
Jhansi’s Lakshmibai…
Tera Smarak tu hi hogi, tu khud amit nishaani thi,
Bundeley Harbolon key munh hamney suni kahani thi,
Khoob ladi mardani woh to Jhansi wali Rani thi.
(full text and translation of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s poem here)
and Jhalkari Bai.
Ah, that familiar old poem from high school.
Comment by km — May 9, 2007 @ 2:33 pm