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قراءة كتاب Lachmi Bai Rani of Jhansi The Jeanne D'Arc of India
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Lachmi Bai Rani of Jhansi The Jeanne D'Arc of India
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 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."
"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 | 23 |
| IV. | A Star in the Ascendent | 36 |
| V. | Ahmad Returns to Court | 48 |
| VI. | The Oath | 61 |
| VII. | How Ahmad Kept His Oath | 72 |
| VIII. | The Darbar | 85 |
| IX. | At the House of Ahmad Khan | 101 |
| X. | The White Turret | 107 |
| XI. | A Shrewd Diagnosis | 117 |
| XII. | Ahmad again Nonplussed | 126 |
| XIII. | What Bipin Overheard | 139 |
| XIV. | At the Tomb of Firoz Khan | 155 |
| XV. | In the Course of Events | 172 |
| XVI. | Jhansi Besieged | 184 |
| XVII. | With Sword and Torch | 193 |
| XVIII. | A Prince in Scarlet | 207 |
| XIX. | A Call to the Heart | 218 |
| XX. | Bipin Takes a Prisoner | 229 |
| XXI. |