KITTUR RANI CHENNAMMA

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• Kittur Chennamma (1778 – 1829) was an Indian freedom fighter and Rani of the Kittur, a former princely state in Karnataka.
  
  
• She is one of the first women freedom fighters to have fought against the British rule in India.
  
  
• She led an armed force 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. She was defeated in the third war and was imprisoned at Bailhongal Fort where she died in 1829.
  
  
• Chennamma's legacy and first victory are still commemorated in Kittur, during the Kittur Utsava annually held on 22–24 October. in 2007 a statue of Rani Chennamma was unveiled at the Indian Parliament Complex by Pratibha Patil, the first woman President of India.