Rani of Jhansi and the Sepoy rebellion YouTube Video

This resource is designed to go with the FREE History Detective YouTube episode on Lakshmibai Rani of Jhansi and the Sepoy Rebellion.

The video explores the story of the Rani of Jhansi the Indian Warrior Queen who fought against the British colonisers to try and retain control of her state. It also explored the different portrayals of Lakshibai from different historical perspectives. The video has closed captions for accessibility.

The resource can be used both in classroom lessons and online teaching. The resource goes through some pre-listening vocabulary, before looking at the historical concept of reliability and the resource includes source analysis activities.

The worksheet has reflection questions and lyrical analysis of the song Bite the Bullet, which was written exclusively for the topic, and an activity for further research.

Answer key included.

The lyric video forBite the Bullet on YouTube.