She received the name "Lakshmi" after an Indian Goddess of Wealth, and "Bai" is one of the titles a Rani takes on. Lakshmi Bai had gone from a bold, combative young girl to a queen shouldering ...
There is something of the Cinderella story to Lakshmi Bai, a commoner who rose to become rani (queen) of Jhansi, a princely state in mid-19th century India. Most fairy tales would end there, but in ...