Rani Jindan is Sarkar Ranjit Singh's youngest queen, a commoner who he loves and marries at a later stage in his life. How he identifies her strength of character, clarity of mind and her love for Punjab and makes her his queen, how she manages to handle all the palace intrigues of the zenana, how she handles his death, the subsequent fall of their kingdom, the British taking over and separating her from her son and how she fights in her own way right till the end.
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Born of a small employee who trains dogs at the royal palace Jindan, with help and support from her brother and mother, makes a tryst with her destiny by going to Lahore with her father who somehow wills her to become the queen or concubine of the Sarkar. The palace intrigues are well portrayed, somehow she made it come alive and I could visualise it all pretty clearly. A lover after the death of her husband, her loyalists, betrayal from those closest to her, seeing her brother being murdered by the Khalsa, fleeing from the British and finally even living a few years in England before breathing her last there itself.
Fascinating story, However not Chitra's best in terms of energy. There were times when I would skip the detail because the narrative dragged and flagged. Times when she went on telling the story.
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