How is Rani Lakshmi Bai usually portrayed?
(i) Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi is usually portrayed as one of the bravest women of early phase of modern (or British) India.
Only a few people have the courage to stand against injustice. One can easily imagine the plight of women when even the menfolk suffer meekly the indignities and the acts of injustice. But Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi took up arms when the English annexed her kingdom of Jhansi and gave them a bitter fight. In the end she laid her life like a brave heroine on the altar of her motherland but did not bow to injustice.
(ii) Rani Lakshmi Bai was very popular among the people of her state. Most of the historians point out her as a great brave lady of the time but some unsucessfully try to this figure his brave deeds just by putting the fact in wrong manner that she was only worried about her own family and state.
