Kittur Chennamma (1778 –1829) was the Rani of Kittur, a princely state in 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, in which she defeated them, but she died in the imprisonment of second rebellion by the British East India Company.
One of the first female rulers to rebel against British rule, she became a folk hero in Karnataka and symbol of the independence movement in India.
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