10 Facts About Jhalkaribai

Jhalkaribai was a woman soldier who played an important role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Jhalkaribai served in the women's army of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi.

Jhalkaribai eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen, Rani of Jhansi.

Jhalkaribai bore an uncanny resemblance to Laxmibai and because of this she was inducted into the women's wing of the army.

Jhalkaribai waited for relief from Peshwa Nana Sahib's army camping at Kalpi that did not come because Tantia Tope had already been defeated by General Rose.

The movement to establish Bundelkhand as a separate state has used the legend of Jhalkaribai to create the Bundeli identity.

Jhalkaribai addressed Jhalkaribai as Korin and an extraordinary soldier in Laxmibai's army.

The first biography of Jhalkaribai was written in 1964 by Bhawani Shankar Visharad, with the help of Varma's novel and his research from the oral narratives of Kori communities living in the vicinity of Jhansi.

Since the 1990s, the story of Jhalkaribai has begun to model a fierce form of Koli womanhood, has acquired a political dimension, and her image is being reconstructed with the demands of social situation.

Manikarnika, a Hindi film starring Ankita Lokhande as Jhalkaribai has been made.