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Jhansi Fort
 The fort is famous for Rani Lakshmi Bai, the woman who headed the Indian troops here during the Mutiny of 1857-58. Bir Singh Deo of Orchha built the nucleus of the present fort in 1613. In 1853 Raja Gangadhar Rao of Jhansi died without a direct heir.
His adopted son was not familiar and his widow, the Rani Lakshmi Bai, grudgingly at first and then with fiery courage took on the British in the unsettled years, which lead unto the Mutiny. |
