Must know information before you Travel to Jhansi
The historic city of Jhansi is famously is famously associated with Rani Lakshmibai, the epitome of strong and unwavering womanhood. As the British General Sir Hugh Rose, who defeated Lakshmibai, said of her, 'She is a wonderful woman, very brave and determined. It is fortunate for us that the men are not all like her.' The queen of this princely state began her own odyssey as a leader and modernist visionary after the tragic death of her husband, the king of Jhansi, Gangadhar Rao, and the unwarranted denial of her adopted child s claim to the throne owing to the British policy of Doctrine of Lapse. During the 1857 Uprising, she trained and organized her troops, including men and women, and led them into the battlefield with the legendary proclamation, main Jlzansi ;whin doongi! (I will not give Jhansi!). After two weeks of relentless fighting in March 1858, Jhansi fort fell to the British. It was then that the Rani, with her son strapped to her back, mou...