Her involvement in this massacre is still a subject of debate. In June 1857 a few men of the 12th Bengal Native Infantry seized the fort containing the treasure and magazine, and massacred the European officers of the garrison along with their wives and children. Till this point, Lakshmibai was reluctant to rebel against the British. The city was relatively calm in the midst of unrest in the region but the Rani conducted a Haldi Kumkum ceremony with pomp in front of all the women of Jhansi to provide assurance to her subjects, and to convince them that the British were cowards and not to be afraid of them. On the Indian Rebellion started in Meerut when news of this reached Jhansi the Rani asked the British political officer, Captain Alexander Skene, for permission to raise a body of armed men for her own protection and Skene agreed to this. Indian Rebellion of 1857–58 May – July 1857Ī rumour that the cartridges supplied by the East India Company to the soldiers in its army contained pork or beef fat began to spread throughout India in the early months of 1857. 10,000, seven retainers only, and is in the guardianship of Munshi Dharmanarayan. Damodar Rao surrendered himself to a British official and his memoir ends in May 1860 when he has been allowed a pension of Rs.
After two years there were about 12 survivors and these together with another group of 24 they encountered sought the city of Jhalrapatan where there were yet more refugees from Jhansi. It houses a collection of archaeological remains of the period between 9th and 12th centuries AD.Īccording to a memoir purporting to be by Damodar Rao he was among his mother's troops and household at the battle of Gwalior together with others who had survived the battle (some 60 retainers with 60 camels and 22 horses) he fled from the camp of Rao Sahib of Bithur and as the village people of Bundelkhand dared not aid them for fear of reprisals from the British they were forced to live in the forest and suffer many privations. The Rani Mahal, the palace of Rani Lakshmibai, has now been converted into a museum. Her horses included Sarangi, Pavan and Badal according to tradition she rode Badal when escaping from the fort in 1858. Rani Lakshmibai was accustomed to ride on horseback accompanied by a small escort between the palace and the temple though sometimes she was carried by palanquin. 60,000 and ordered to leave the palace and the fort. In March 1854, Lakshmibai was given a pension of Rs. After the death of the raja in November 1853 because Damodar Rao was adopted, the British East India Company, under Governor-General Lord Dalhousie, applied the Doctrine of Lapse, rejecting Damodar Rao's claim to the throne and annexing the state to its territories. The adoption was in the presence of the British political officer who was given a letter from the raja requesting that the child should be treated with kindness and that the government of Jhansi should be given to his widow for her lifetime. The Raja adopted a child called Anand Rao, the son of Gangadhar Rao's cousin, who was renamed Damodar Rao, on the day before he died. She gave birth to a boy named Damodar Rao in 1851, but when he was four months old he died. Manikarnika was married to the Maharaja of Jhansi, Raja Gangadhar Rao, in 1842, and was afterwards called Lakshmibai (or Laxmibai). She was more independent in her childhood than others of her age her studies included archery, horsemanship, and self-defence. The Peshwa called her "Chhabili", which means "playful". Her father worked for a court Peshwa of Bithoor district who brought Manikarnika up like his own daughter. Her father was Moropant Tambe and her mother Bhagirathi Sapre (Bhagirathi Bai). She was named Manikarnika and was nicknamed Manu. Lakshmibai was born probably on 19 November 1828 in the holy town of Varanasi into a Brahmin family.
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