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03/01/22 13:25 PM IST

Source: PIB

Rani Velu Nachiyar

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PM remembers Rani Velu Nachiyar on her birth anniversary.

About Rani Velu Nachiyar

  • Rani Velu Nachiyar is remembered as the first queen from India to fight against the British East India Company.
  • She was a princess of Ramanathapuram.
  • Born in 1730, Velu Nachiyar was the only child of Raja Chellamuthu Vijayaragunatha Sethupathy and Rani Sakandhimuthal of the Ramnad kingdom.
  • She was trained in martial arts and was also a scholar with proficiency in many languages.
  • She was drawn into battle when her husband, the king of Sivaganga was killed by Company soldiers.
  • She sought an alliance with Hyder Ali of Mysore in order to launch a campaign against the East India Company.
  • The queen arranged a suicide attack on a place where the Company stored its ammunition and blew them up.
  • Her daughter succeeded her in 1790.
  • She passed away in 1796.
  • She is remembered as ‘veeramangai’.

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