Rani Laxmi Bai This part of India suffers from the worst of Indian summer heat. It lies between Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. It’s called Bundelkhand. The place where Jhansi is. By the 1800s the British became much stronger in India. They were no longer the bedazzled intimidate foreigners wanting permission to trade but now they were its superior white rulers in a land full of heathens. Mughal power had been reduced from the days of Akbar and Shah Jahan, now the Mughal king Bahadur Shah Zafar was just the king of Delhiliving on British pension. Because the Mughal empire was now so weak and negligible, local chieftains rose up around Delhi and made deals with the British. The British took the land and trading revenues and gave military protection in return. This alliance with India’s elite + military power + the English crown’s blessings, making them extremely powerful. Lord Dalhousie the Viceroy came...
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