In the smoky chaos of the 1857 uprising, amid cannon fire and crumbling walls of Lucknow's Sikandar Bagh, a lone rebel took aim from the branches of a tamarind tree. When the dust settled, more than thirty British soldiers lay dead, and the marksman, Uda Devi, was discovered not as a sepoy but as a woman.
THE WARRIOR FROM LUCKNOW'S MARGINS
Uda Devi was born into the P
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