kittur raani chenamma

1. REBELLION OF KITTUR
ABOUT BRAVE QUEEN
CHENAMMA

2. Kittur Rani Chenamma
23 October 1778 – 21 February 1829

3. She was the Indian queen
{ rani of kittur } a princely state
in present day Karnataka She led
an armed rebellion against
the British East India Company in
1824 in defiance of the doctrine
of lapse in an attempt to maintain
Indian control over the region ,
but was defeated and died
imprisoned . One of the first
female rulers to rebel against
British rule , she has become a
folk heroine Karnataka and symbol
of the independence movement in
India.

4. Kittur Chennamma was
born on 23 October 1778,
in Kakati, a small village in
the present Belagavi
District of Karnataka,
India.
She belonged to
the lingayat community and received
training in horse riding, sword
fighting and archery from a young
age.
She married Raja Mallasarja of
the Desai family at the age of 15.

5. Rebellion against the
British……..

6.  Chennamma’s husband died in 1824 , leaving her with
a son and a state full of volatility . This was
followed by her son’s death in 1824 . Rani
Chennamma was left with the state of Kittur and an
uphill task to save it from the British . Following the
death of her husband and son .
 Rani Chennamma adopted Shivalingappa in the year
1824 and made him the heir to the throne . This
irked the East India Company , who ordered
Shivalingappa’s expulsion , on the pretext of the
Doctrine of Lapse introduced by Lord Dalhousie, the
then Governor General, to annex independent
Indian States in 1848 .

7.  This doctrine was based on the idea
that in case the ruler of an independent
state died childless , the right of ruling
the State ‘ lapsed ’ to the sovereign .
The state of Kittur came under the
administration of Dharwad collectorate
in charge of St John Thackeray of
which Mr. Chaplin was the commissioner
, both of whom did not recognize the
new ruler and regent and notified Kittur
to accept the British regime .

8.  Rani Chennamma sent a letter to Governor of
the Bombay Presidency pleading her cause ,
but the request was turned down, and war
broke out.The British tried to confiscate the
treasure and jewels of Kittur, valued at
around 1.5 million rupees. They attacked
with a force of 20,797 men and 437 guns,
mainly from the third troop of Madras
Native Horse Art.

9.  .In the first round of war , during October
1824 , British forces lost heavily and St
John Thackeray , collector and political
agent was killed in the war .Amatur Balappa
, a lieutenant of Chennamma , was mainly
responsible for his killing and losses to
British forces .

10. KITTUR
FORT

11.  Sangolli Rayanna continued
the guerrilla war to 1829
, in vain , until his
capture . He wanted to
install the adopted boy
Shivalingappa as the ruler
of Kittur , but Sangolli
Rayanna was caught and
hanged . Shivalingappa was
arrested by the British
Chennamma's legacy and
first victory are still
commemorated in Kittur ,
during the Kittur Utsava
held on 22 -
24 October annually.

12. Veera raani kittur chenamma