A letter was written by Rani Lakshmibai in Persian, the Rani of Jhansi, to the east Governor-general of the East India Company. Lord Dalhousie has been discovered in the British Library. The letter was found in the British archives, which had been written shortly before the start of India’s war of Independence which held in 1857. The letter had been written by an iconic talisman for the nationalist narrative in India. The letter was one of the part of the collection of documents of Bowring Collection. Deepika Ahlawat, research curator for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Maharaja Exhibition currently being staged in London. Lakshmibai wrote that her husband adopted a suitable heir before his death by performing all the necessary rights for her adopted son. Damodar Rao, to be accepted as the next Raja of Jhansi.
