Did Rani Lakshmi Bai Have Her Own Child?
Did Rani Lakshmi Bai Have Her Own Child? Renamed Lakshmi Bai, the young rani bore one son in 1851, but he died four months later. In 1853, following a serious illness, Gangadhar Rao adopted a distant cousin named Damodar Rao as his son—similarly, Gangadhar and the brother who had preceded him on the throne were