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dated August 18, 1957: Jhansi Rani’s statue

Dr. K.N. Katju, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, laid the foundation stone of a memorial to Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi in Gwalior on August 16, a hundred years and two months after she attained martyrdom in this town in India’s First War of Independence. The Rani died on the battlefield while fighting troops led by Sir Hugh Rose on June 18, 1857, and her body was cremated by a soldier with the help of a sadhu the same night at a nearby spot where her samadhi, a Tulsi-Brindavan, now stands. A 25-foot statue of the Rani on horseback and a circular hall housing a library and a museum will form the memorial.

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