The aim of this research project is to present the descriptions of the Rani of Jhansi, and the 18... more The aim of this research project is to present the descriptions of the Rani of Jhansi, and the 1857 Rebellion as a defamiliarised one in the novel, Rani by Jaishree Misra. The purpose of this study has been answered with the application of the historical method called the new historical approach. Firstly, this has been done by looking out for dialogism, dualism, and subversion in the novel. Secondly, the European and Indian beliefs on India, the Indian queen, Lakshmibai, and the 1857 Rebellion presented in non-fiction, and authentic illustrations is compared with what’s presented in Rani. Thirdly, an analysis, and comparison of the role of the ‘white man’ and ‘white ideologies’ presented in Anglo-Indian, and Indian literature from Victorian times to the 21st century is done with what is stated in Misra’s novel. The results show that Rani is a postmodern, revisionist postcolonial historical fiction. The novel challenges the authority of master narratives concerning nationality and modernity. History simply focuses on reconstructing the revolt as an event triggered by issues that led to the suffering and discontent of the colonizers and colonized. In Rani, the image of the revolt is defamiliarised as an event where a country’s environment enlarged, and merged into the world. The image of the Rani of Jhansi, likewise, is defamiliarised as not only an emancipatory one but also as a secular icon with cosmopolitan outlook radiating notions of healthy womanhood. The novel is devoid of religious and chauvinistic ideologies. The role of the white man, Major Ellis is neither sidestepped nor privileged as an interlocutor. Keywords: Self-representation; Postcolonial; historiography; secular; cosmopolitan
The aim of this research project is to present the descriptions of the Rani of Jhansi, and the 18... more The aim of this research project is to present the descriptions of the Rani of Jhansi, and the 1857 Rebellion as a defamiliarised one in the novel, Rani by Jaishree Misra. The purpose of this study has been answered with the application of the historical method called the new historical approach. Firstly, this has been done by looking out for dialogism, dualism, and subversion in the novel. Secondly, the European and Indian beliefs on India, the Indian queen, Lakshmibai, and the 1857 Rebellion presented in non-fiction, and authentic illustrations is compared with what’s presented in Rani. Thirdly, an analysis, and comparison of the role of the ‘white man’ and ‘white ideologies’ presented in Anglo-Indian, and Indian literature from Victorian times to the 21st century is done with what is stated in Misra’s novel. The results show that Rani is a postmodern, revisionist postcolonial historical fiction. The novel challenges the authority of master narratives concerning nationality and modernity. History simply focuses on reconstructing the revolt as an event triggered by issues that led to the suffering and discontent of the colonizers and colonized. In Rani, the image of the revolt is defamiliarised as an event where a country’s environment enlarged, and merged into the world. The image of the Rani of Jhansi, likewise, is defamiliarised as not only an emancipatory one but also as a secular icon with cosmopolitan outlook radiating notions of healthy womanhood. The novel is devoid of religious and chauvinistic ideologies. The role of the white man, Major Ellis is neither sidestepped nor privileged as an interlocutor. Keywords: Self-representation; Postcolonial; historiography; secular; cosmopolitan
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Keywords: Self-representation; Postcolonial; historiography; secular; cosmopolitan
Keywords: Self-representation; Postcolonial; historiography; secular; cosmopolitan