"If I die in the war, it will be my good fortune."
Those words have been widely repeated in Indian memory as the voice of resolve from the Rani of Jhansi during the uprising of 1857.
The sentence captures a readiness to sacrifice and a belief that death in defence of honour and people can be noble.
The line belongs to the body of oral tradition
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