Lakshmi Bai
Lakshmi Bai, 1806. Mahrathaprincess. One of the three widows of Mahadji Sindhia (d. 1794) she, along-with others, was involved in the bitter Widow’s War’ with his successor Daulat Rai Sindhia, over their proper maintenance and treatment. in March 1798, the widows threatened to march to Pune to meet the Peshwa, and though the war temporarily coded in August 1799, it began again in January a 1800, and was ultimately engulfed in bigger struggle between Sindia and Holkar which led to the. ruination of the Mahratha independence.
