She was courageous since childhood. When she was 15 years old, she once went out to hunt in the forest. He saw a tiger in the distant bushes. Chennamma took out her arrow and ran or the tiger was so precise that the tiger died instantly. Running her horse, Chennamma reached there. Then another horseman came there and pointing towards the tiger said that this tiger has died from my arrow. Both of them argued for a long time to get rights over the dead tiger, but Chennamma did not agree. Then the horseman proposed marriage to Chennamma. These horsemen were Raja Mallasaraja Desai of Kittur, a princely state in South India.
Chennamma's family accepted the marriage proposal. The two were married with pomp, and Chennamma reached Kittar as the queen. Chennamma had a son but fate had something else written in it. Within a few years, her husband died. Chennamma's son died in the same year.
The queen then adopted a child and declared him her heir. The East India Company cunningly refused to accept the child as Kittoot's heir and the queen was asked to accept the Company's rule. But the queen refused it. On this, the British attacked Kittur with 20 thousand soldiers.
The husband had died, with a small child. If Chennamma wanted, she would have lived her life comfortably by making a treaty with the British, but the queen thought it better to fight a war to save her motherland, to save her people from the tyranny of the British. The war started. Despite being surrounded in the fort, the queen along with her soldiers created a massacre in the English army. They put great English officers to death and took them hostage. But the British continued the war and kept sending troops on the troops outside the fort. Rani fought tirelessly but in the end Tani was taken hostage and put in jail. Even though Chennamma lost in the last battle, her valor is always remembered and she is also known as Lakshmibai of Karnataka.
Posted on 18th Aug 2022