They Say In Jhansi That The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Their Town Was Lakshmi Bai&' The 400-Year-Old Town Of Jhansi Still Feels That It Owes Its Fame To A Young Rani Who Ruled For Four-And-A-Half Years. In The Uprising Of 1857 Which Came To Be Known As The First War Of Indian Independence', She Was A Singular Figure In A Gallery Of Heroes. Rani Lakshmi Bai Also Became The Protagonist In A Different Kind Of Story Fiction By British Writers To Dramatize The Horrific Experience Of The Mutiny In Which An Oriental Queen, Full Of Passion, Added A Thrilling Dimension. But Despite An Incredible Career, It Took Eighty Years For Indians To Write A Comprehensive Description Of Rani Lakshmi Bai'S Life. It Was Not Because She Was Forgotten But That People Who Lived In Her Time Did Not Leave Any Writing Behind And The Few Who Knew Her Were Too Afraid Of Reprisals To Profess Links With Her. How Did A Young Marathi Woman Come To Wield So Much Influence In A Strongly Rajput-Dominated Region In The Grip Of An Alien Power? The Life Of The Warrior Queen Has Inspired Historians, Writers And, More Recently, Film-Makers. But For The First Time, In Biographer Tapti Roy'S Vivid Rendition, Lakshmi Bai Is Located Within The Wider Context Of Her Time And Space.

This is a ground-breaking history of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, part of the Indian National Army led by Bengali revolutionary Subhas Chandra Bose during World War II. The Regiment, a hitherto forgotten part of "the Forgotten Army," was composed largely of teenage volunteers from Malayan rubber estates, girls who had never seen India yet were eager to enlist to liberate India from colonial bondage. Bose, creator of the Regiment, connected a historical thread extending from the original Rani of Jhansi, killed in battle by the British in 1858, through Bengali women revolutionaries of the 1930s, to the Regiment, which he hoped would spearhead the liberation of India. The Rani of Jhansi Regiment provides a model of empowerment relevant for contemporary Indian women.

Traditionally, history has been telling us the stories of kings. In the long tradition of history writing, his-story has always dominated over her-story. Though queens evoke a sense of romance and their stories are told like fairy tales, it is common enough to find that these stories end in tragedy. In India's history, not all queens are remembered today. Some are celebrated; while others have been almost ignored by historians. In Ranis and the Raj, Queeny Pradhan has selected six queens. All the six queens are fromthe nineteenth century and have faced the British Raj, the East India Company and the Crown. From the Rani of Sirmur, who was the earliest to deal with theBritish authorities, to Rani Chennamma, Rani Jindan, Begum Zeenat Mahal, Rani Lakshmi Bai, to the Sikkim Queen from the 1860s to 1890s, Pradhan has attempted to carve an engrossing historical narrative for each of these important figures in Indian history. Unlike the biographical convention in traditional history writing, theresearch in this book can be placed in the realm of 'microhistory'. The life stories of these queens are fragmented due to the 'silences' and 'invisibilization' in political history of the time, and this book aims to fill these gaps.

Follows the adventures of Raja Patel, Rani Sharma, and their two children, sixteen-year-old Jasmine and nine-year-old Shiva, as they explore life in their new home city of Toronto.

The last independent warrior of Mewar, Maharana Raj Singh, ruled the kingdom during the reign of Aurangzeb, the then Emperor of India. When Chanchal Kumari, the princess of Roopnagar, flung a portrait of Aurangzeb and stepped on it, Aurangzeb was furious by the news. As a result, he wanted to marry her, as a mark of his insult. Chanchal kumari refused and requested Raj Singh to save her from the Mughal Emperor. For a Rajput, the honour of his womenfolk was of prime importance. And the events that follow this are an important and memorable part of history.

Raja and Rani were born in the same hospital. They studied in the same school and college. But destiny kept separating them at regular intervals. They moved from being good friends to soul mates over a period of five decades. This funny sweet sad story of two individuals is the story of many of us. Read 'Jab Raja Met Rani' to know whether providence brings them together.Author:Dr Tuhin S Banerjee completed his BE from Visvesvaraya National of Technology, Nagpur. He finished his Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the prestigious T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal. He was awarded his PhD from Pacific University, Udaipur.He has held leadership positions for three decades in training and development at Reliance Industries, ING Vysya Life Insurance, Infosys Technologies and Principal Retirement Advisors. He is guest faculty member at top B-Schools. He has written two books and published more than twenty papers. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and two daughters.Read 'Jab Raja Met Rani' to know whether providence brings them together.