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It will be called her good luck that Lakshmibai, born in an ordinary Brahmin family, became the Maharani. But the rare reticence, courage and bravery she displayed while fighting the enemy army during Indias first fight for freedom were her individual understanding and her genius as a warrior. Some of our own brethren played traitors in Indias fight for freedom, otherwise the Englishmen would have abandoned and left India at that time itself I the face of the Maharanis courage and valour. This book presents a date wise account of these events.,It is the belief of traditional Indian nationalists that the events of 1857 are not a series of isolated and uncoordinated mutinies. In fact, it was a war of idependence for achieving freedom.It is a turning point in which the nationalist feeling, long suppressed by the British occupation flared into violence. It convinced the Britishers that India could not be held at leisure and fear of another mutiny continued to haunt the British rulers right till 1947. That is why a lot of people consider the mutiny of 1857 as the "First war of Independence".