Rani Chennamma, the Queen of Kittur who led an armed rebellion against the British
The Kittur revolt of 1824, one of the earliest woman-led anti-colonial struggles. Rani Chennamma’s valour forms a significant part of Karnataka’s political imagination. The reason that Rani Chenamma came into our national consciousness after other women warriors like Rani Laxmi Bai was because Karnataka became a state much later.
Source: indianexpress.com
