Rani Lakshmi Bai went down in history as one of colonizing Britain's fiercest enemies, alongside fighters like Jind Kaur and Duleep Singh. But few people know the Rani's utterly dramatic and tragic ...

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 ...