Poetcrit
Current Volume: 37 (2024 )
ISSN: 0970-2830
Periodicity: Half-Yearly
Month(s) of Publication: January & July
Subject: Language & Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET
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Display of Exceptional Bravery and Valiance by an Outstanding Indian Heroine: A Focus on Basavaraj Naikar’s Historical Epic Novel The Warrior Queen of Keladi
By : R. K. Mishra
Page No: 1-13
Abstract
The Warrior Queen of Keladi is a historical epic novel that comprehensively portrays the exceptional heroism and gallantry exhibited in the battle by the Rani Chennamma an outstandingly brave and valiant queen of Karnataka. She figured supremely as an invincible and invulnerable warrior for her consecutive and consistent victory over her enemies for protection and emancipation of her kingdom by virtue of her heroism and bravery. She glorified and dignified her regime on account of her Amazonian temper and prowess. Rani Chennamma, the Queen of Keladi, becomes ferociously belligerent and monstrously combatant against her enemies but meekly compassionate and beneficently benevolent towards the underprivileged. The novel depicts superhuman heroic achievements of the queen in the battlefield. It assumes historical significance.
Author :
R. K. Mishra
Reader in English (Retd), Mahalaxmi Nagar (Balangir, Odisha) – 767 001 (India).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET.2024.37.01.1