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::Ah, very good, I hadn't noticed that you had contributed to the English page. We have the same opinion of Copsey. <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 12:33, 19 Septembris 2013 (UTC)
:::Don't know if you've seen [http://archive.org/details/heartofindia00holcuoft this]. Haven't read it, but there are three chapters on events of 1857/58 in Jhansi. Might it be the oldest narrative in English written from a non-British and not-wholly-masculine point of view? <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 12:49, 19 Septembris 2013 (UTC)
::::That is a very interesting find; the contents list does not have page nos. so I have not taken a serious look at the contents. The authors are American Presbyterian missionaries born in 1836 and 1837 so they might take a different view from British missionaries of the period. From [http://copac.ac.uk/ Copac] I have found the British Library copy of this book and also that James Foote Holcomb was the author of "Jhansi History and the Rani of Jhansi" 73 p. Madras: M. E. Press, [1904] The three chapters in the 1905 book may be the same text as this. I do not plan to amend the English page on the Rani much more; it has stabilised since the page protection was switched on. If it develops significantly it will be an Indian editor with good language skills who does it I expect. Books written by two or more people have always been a problem for bibliographers; the Holcombs' book is written neither from a British or an Indian viewpoint so well worth mentioning.--[[Usor:Felix Folio Secundus|Felix Folio Secundus]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Felix Folio Secundus|disputatio]]) 12:59, 20 Septembris 2013 (UTC)
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