Overlooked No More: Rani of Jhansi, India’s Warrior Queen Who Fought the British

I love this series and love learning about people I have never heard of. Rani of Jhansi sounds like my kind of woman!

Everything I know about the Rani I learned from Flashman. George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman and the Great Game deals extensively with her and the events of the Mutiny. A cracking read, and deeply researched.

I believe her life was made into a TV series that is on Netflix, called Jhansi ki Rani, IIRC. Fascinating, courageous woman.

For an alternate but no less rigorously researched version of the remarkable individual, enjoy "Flashman in the Great Game" by George MacDonald Fraser.

She's the stuff of legend in India.

So grateful to the Times for publishing this. She was a true patriot. Too often the American media give us only the British perspective on their many conflicts with non-English people around the world.

Each time I read about anything pre-independence, my blood boils at the atrocities, looting of 47 trillion dollars, stealing the Indian heritage saying Sanskrit is a foreign language to India, chopping the hands of the textile artisans as the sub-continent was No 1 in textiles. taxing the subcontinent and taking over the history and heritage and calling them the natives, and that dastard Churchill created famine by diverting the resources to the WW and the film wins an Oscar!!!. To this day the poverty created by the dastardly British still exists in the sub-continent and they have yet to recover. The sub-continent's then GDP was 25% of the world, the only competitor being China. To this day no apology and no return of the goods stolen from the sub-continent. And the British killed a fierce fighter a woman, Jhansi Ki Rani.

An inspiring story and another reminder of why, for whatever good the British Empire did (and it did), it still constitutes a disgusting exercise of spiritual dissolution. Let's put this up there with the Opium Wars.

That is what British did to the most parts of the world. they divided India and their people, killed and enslaved many of them. Displaced many people, Looted most of our resources including Gold, Diamonds, Historical pieces and even tea. Occupied every hill stations and enslaved more to be their personal servants. The atrocities they did to India and other countries are unforgivable.

A fitting article to be published on India's Independence Day.

Goes to show the extent and length of English thievery

What an incredible and inspiring story! Marvel Comics, I hope you are reading this - Princess Laxmibai sounds like a real-life Winder Woman. Thank you NYT - I so enjoy this series!

Actually "Jhansi ki Rani" (Jhansi's queen) is quite well known, mentioned and taught in nearly all Indian history books. I remember that a very fast steam locomotive was named after her during the 60s. I am glad that NYT has shared this fascinating story with the rest of the world.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read about Queen Laxmibai and her obituary, and for access to the obituaries of other people I wouldn't normally read about. What an unusual and interesting idea!