'The Last Queen': Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel resurrects the history of Jindan Kaur of Punjab
‘The Last Queen’: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel resurrects the history of Jindan Kaur of Punjab Fiction is the medium of a saga of a woman that history has not given enough importance to. Jindan Kaur | By George Richmond / Public Domain When Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni had announced the title of her latest novel on her Facebook page and asked fans to guess who the titular queen could be, the answers had ranged from Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi and Rani Chennamma of Karnataka to the Tuluva queen Abbakka Chowta of Ullal (present day Mangaluru), and even a vague “anyone...