Rani Lakshmibai

1828–1858

Rani Lakshmibai was the queen of Jhansi and one of the best-known leaders of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After the East India Company annexed Jhansi under the Doctrine of Lapse, she organised resistance, fought at Jhansi and Gwalior and was killed in battle in 1858.

In George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman in the Great Game, Travelling in disguise, he enters Jhansi and the court of Rani Lakshmibai, then moves through a country where rumour, religious grievance and political annexation are turning military tension into revolt. In Michelle Moran’s Rebel Queen, Sita, the educated daughter of a village family, wins a place in the Durga Dal, the elite female guard serving Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi. Other novels featuring Rani Lakshmibai include Michelle Moran’s The Last Queen of India.

Series

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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