Rewriting Indian History: Colonial Encounters in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's the Last Queen and Basavaraj Naikar's the Queen of Kittur

by P. V. Laxmiprasad

Basavaraj Naikar's The Queen of Kittur delineates the history of Pre-Independent India during the East India Company. The colonial encounter that it significantly deals with was fought between the Queen of Kittur - (Rani Chennamma) and the authorities of the East India Company around 1824 for land and political power. Although the Queen put up a heroic fight with the East India Company and succeeded in killing Thackeray, the political agent of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680532529
• ISBN13: 9781680532524
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"