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Rani of Jhansi

Queen of a princely state in India

  • Fame62.5
  • Momentum21.0
  • Activists rank#48
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  • Fame62.5
  • Momentum21.0
  • Activists rank#48
  • Wikipedia39.4K
Lived 1828–1858, aged 30India
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  • Era
    1828–1858
    Aged 30
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

She fought the British Empire on horseback with a sword, died in battle at a fort, and became the face of resistance — a 19th-century queen whose refusal to surrender Jhansi turned her into India's most potent symbol of defiance against colonial rule.

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Born Manikarnika Tambe into a Marathi family in Varanasi in the late 1820s or 1835, she married the raja of Jhansi young and took the name Rani Lakshmibai. When their son died and her husband adopted a relative on his deathbed in 1853, the British East India Company refused to recognise the succession and annexed Jhansi under the Doctrine of Lapse, ignoring her protests to Lord Dalhousie. After Indian troops mutinied and massacred the British in Jhansi in May 1857 — her role in the massacre contested then and now — she took command, recruited an army, and held off neighbouring states. The Brit…

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She inspires us till today and shall continue to inspire future generations till eternity.
— Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
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[Rani Lakshmibai is] "personable, clever and beautiful"... "the most dangerous of all Indian leaders".
— Hugh Rose in David, Saul (2003), The Indian Mutiny: 1857, London: Penguin; p. 367 Ashcroft, Nigel (2009), Queen of Jhansi, Mumbai:
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The British Raj in India has treated Savarkar’s book as most dangerous for their existence here. So it has been banned.
— Subbarao about the book by V.D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
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Although a lady, [she] was the bravest and best military leader of the rebels.
— Major General Hugh Rose quoted in "What makes Rani Lakshmibai a symbol of Indian womanhood 150 years after martyrdom", Journalism Of
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62.5
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Momentum21.0
Historical24.4
Now attention54.9
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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