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Kittur Chennamma

1778 - 1829

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Kittur Chennamma (14 November 1778 – 21 February 1829) was the Indian Queen of Kittur, a former princely state in present-day Karnataka. She led an armed resistance against the British East India Company, in defiance of the Paramountcy, in an attempt to retain control over her dominion. She defeated the Company in the first revolt, but died as a prisoner of war after the second rebellion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kittur Chennamma has received more than 1,732,972 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Kittur Chennamma is the 168th most popular social activist (down from 150th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from India (down from 145th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Kittur Chennamma ranks 168 out of 840. Before her are Mordechai Vanunu, Maria Spiridonova, Frederick Douglass, Rigoberta Menchú, Otoya Yamaguchi, and René Just Haüy. After her are Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Vladimir Bukovsky, Emilie Schindler, Ilya Ulyanov, Sojourner Truth, and Chico Mendes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Kittur Chennamma ranks 18. Before her are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Clemens Brentano, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and Ugo Foscolo. After her are Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Carl Ludvig Engel, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Beau Brummell, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Sophie Blanchard. Among people deceased in 1829, Kittur Chennamma ranks 18. Before her are Alexander Griboyedov, Adam Albert von Neipperg, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Mauro Giuliani, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, and Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa. After her are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Josef Dobrovský, Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, and Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kittur Chennamma ranks 170 out of 1,861. Before her are Madhvacharya (1199), Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), and Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856). After her are Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Shantideva (685), Abdul Karim (1863), James Brooke (1803), and Kailash Satyarthi (1954).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Kittur Chennamma ranks 11. Before her are Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), and Mangal Pandey (1827). After her are Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Khudiram Bose (1889), Anna Hazare (1937), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), and Vandana Shiva (1952).

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