LACHMI BAI


"Lachmi Bai! Lachmi Bai! Rani of Jhansi!" they cried.—Page [31].


Lachmi Bai
Rani
of
Jhansi

The
Jeanne D'Arc
of India

By
Michael
White

New York
J. F. Taylor & Company
1901


COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY
J. F. TAYLOR AND
COMPANY, NEW YORK

Press of
Riggs Printing Company
Albany, N. Y.


To
my wife


The RANI of JHANSI

"Being young, vigorous, and not afraid to show herself to the multitude, she gained a great influence over the hearts of the people. It was this influence, this force of character, added to a splendid and inspiring courage, that enabled her to offer a desperate resistance to the British.... Whatever her faults in British eyes may have been, her countrymen will ever believe that she was driven by ill-treatment into rebellion; that her cause was a righteous cause. To them she will always be a heroine."

KAYE AND MALLESON,
"History of the Indian Mutiny."