Name: Adventures of A Brahmin Priest: My Travels in the 1857 Rebellion
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Book details

xlv+214p., 22cm.
Softcover
English language
Oxford University Press
25.03.2014
ISBN 10: 0198098901
ISBN 13: 9780198098904

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Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism

Adventures of A Brahmin Priest: My Travels in the 1857 Rebellion

Vishnubhat Godse (Author)

Priya Adarkar (Translator)

Shanta Gokhale (Translator)

Mini Krishnan (Editor)

Synopsis

This translation of Marathi classic, Mazha Pravas, published in 1907, presents an eye-witness account of the 1857 Rebellion. Using 19th century idiom, it describes rituals and prayer, bizarre cross-dressing, battle and blood, and, most memorably, the fall of Jhansi.

Straddling both historiography and literature, it interprets the Rebellion as a righteous one and pins its failure to a moral point: in killing women and children the rebels violated the Hindu code of ethics and thus ensured their defeat. This first Indian account of the Uprising is sprinkled with anecdotes and descriptions of courtly relationships, fear and hysteria of palace intrigues, and above all, the valour of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi.

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