Damodar rao biography of williams
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Eleven years into her marriage, Lakshmibai was widowed and, following a series of events over which she had little control, ended up raising an army in beställning to kamp the mighty British forces when they laid siege to her kingdom. Just a few weeks later, Lakshmibai led her army into an unequal battle against the British, losing her life when she was barely 30.
Pen portraits of this young woman astride a horse, her young son strapped to her back as she brandishes a sword, are a common sight in Indian primary school history books, and Lakshmibai's story served as a source of inspiration for nationalist writers when India's freedom movement started many years later. But her name is one now little known in Britain, despite the fact that her fate was dictated at almost every stage bygd the British government of the time.
In yet another twist of tragic irony, it was in all probability never Lakshmibai's ambition to kamp the British. The kingdom of Jhansi had historically m
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Rani of Jhansi
Queen of Jhansi
"Jhansi Ki Rani" redirects here. For other uses, see Jhansi Ki Rani (disambiguation).
"Manikarnika Tambe" redirects here. For the 2019 Indian Hindi film, see Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi.
The Rani of Jhansi, also known as Rani Lakshmibai (pronunciationⓘ; born Manikarnika Tambe; 19 November 1828 — 18 June 1858) was the Maharani consort of the princely state of Jhansi in the Maratha Empire from 1843 to 1853 by marriage to Maharaja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar. She was one of the leading figures in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, who became a national hero and symbol of resistance to the British rule in India for Indian nationalists.
Born into a Marathi Karhade Brahmin family in Banares, Lakshmibai married the Maharaja of Jhansi, Gangadhar Rao, in 1842. When the Maharaja died in 1853, the British East India Company under Governor-General Lord Dalhousie refused to recognize the claim of his adopted heir and annexed Jhansi under the Doctrine of
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Mukundrao Pai
Indian cricketer
Mukundrao Damodar Pai (21 June 1883 – 5 August 1948) was an Indian cricketer and a member of the first Indian team that toured England in 1911 under the captaincy of Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. Pai was the first Indian cricketer to score a century on his first-class debut, playing for the Hindus against the Europeans in the Bombay Presidency game in 1906.
In a career spanning 15 years, he played a total of 22 first-class matches scoring 640 runs before retiring as a captain of the Hindus cricket team in 1920.
Biography
[edit]Pai was born on 21 June 1883 in Bombay, in what was then British India into a Gaud Saraswat Brahmin family.[1]
He made his first-class cricket debut in the Bombay Presidency game between Hindus and Europeans at the Bombay Gymkhana in 1906.[1][2] He scored a century on debut, scoring 107 runs in the first innings before being bowled by British army officer William Faviell.&