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Jhansi Travel Packages -|- Jhansi Hotels Jhansi
Altitude : 211mts
Introduction : Jhansi situated 101 km south of Gwalior, is actually just across the border in Uttar Pradesh. Although Jhansi has played a colorful role in Indian History most visitors to the town today go there simply because its a convenient transit point for Khajuraho. s History : Jhansi is the gateway to
Bundelkhand was a stronghold of the Chandelakings but lost its importance's
after the eclipses of the dyansty in the 11th century . It rose to prominence
again in the 17 th century under Raja Bir who was close associate of the Mughal
emperor. its greatest claim to fame is its fiery queen Rani Laxmi Bai who led
forces against the British in 1857, sacrificing her life to the course of the
Indian Independence. In the 18th century Jhansi became an important centre,
eclipsing Orchha 18km to the south, but in 1803 the British East India Company
got a foot in the door and gradually assumed control over the state. The last of
a string of none to competent rajas died without a son in 1853 and the British,
who had recently passed a neat little law allowing them to take over any
princely state under their patronage when the ruler died without a male heir,
pensioned the rani off and took full control. Rani, or queen, of Jhansi was one
of the great nationalist heroines of pre-independence India. Born the daughter
of a Benares brahmin, she was married off to Raja Gangadhar of Jhansi, but never
bore him children – a fact exploited by the British to force her and her adopted
baby son into retirement in 1853. The Rani retaliated in 1857, the year of
"Mutiny", by leading her personal bodyguard of five hundred Afghan-Pathan
warriors to seize Jhansi fort. The British dispatched troops to see off the
insurgents, but took seventeen days to blow a beach in the walls of the citadel.
Three days of fierce hand-to-hand fighting ensued, in which five thousand
soldiers were killed. With her son strapped tightly to her back, the Rani
somehow managed to slip through the British net and rejoin the main rebel army
at Gwalior, where she rode to her death, dressed as a man… using her sword with
both hands and holding the reins of her horse in her mouth". Statues of Rani
Jhansi in this heroic pose stand all over northern India.
Jhansi Fort, Rani Mahal, Barua Sagar, Parichha, Government Museum.
By Air : By Rail By Road :
Other cities of Uttar Pradesh : Agra, Lucknow, Benaras, Allahabad, Kanpur, Mathura, Jhansi, Mahoba, Meerut, Muradabad, Gorakhpur.
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