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 ...
