326. Indian Uprising 1857: India’s Joan of Arc – Rani of Jhansi (Part 5)

So it's 1857, it is the middle of what some call the Indian mutiny, others call the Great Uprising, and the East India Company is to meet its most charismatic enemy. She is young, she is beautiful, she is widowed, and she has been robbed of her kingdom by British law and pushed step by step by the arrogant bureaucracy into war. And as legend has it, she endures a brutal siege. She straps her child to her back. She gets on her horse called Badel or Cloud and leaps over the ramparts.

only to face an army later on dressed as a man fighting to the death. This is the story of the rebel the British admired most and could not control. The Rani of Jansey. Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnund and me, William Durymple. And uh as you know, we are now deep into our series on the events of 1857, um, either called the the

Indian mutiny, the Great Uprising, the First War of Independence, call it what you will, but without a doubt, this sepoy, what starts was a sepoy mutiny and then gains momentum throughout India is going to change the map of the subcontinent. Let's start with where where did we start, Willie? I mean, where did we start with all of this? Just remind people who may not have heard the first two episodes. Well, do go and listen to them because it's such a

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