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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Kittur Chennamma

1778 - 1829

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Kittur Chennamma (23 October 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 1,598,077 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kittur Chennamma is the 150th most popular social activist (up from 218th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from India (up from 202nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Kittur Chennamma ranks 150 out of 538. Before her are Bertha Pappenheim, Huda Sha'arawi, Judas of Galilee, Jacques Roux, Edward Snowden, and Margaret Sanger. After her are Leopold Trepper, Max Mosley, Emilie Schindler, Beppe Grillo, Musa al-Sadr, and Manuela Sáenz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Kittur Chennamma ranks 18. Before her are Clemens Brentano, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and Ugo Foscolo. After her are Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Beau Brummell, Sophie Blanchard, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, and Carl Ludvig Engel. Among people deceased in 1829, Kittur Chennamma ranks 17. Before her are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, François-Joseph Gossec, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, Mauro Giuliani, and Adam Albert von Neipperg. After her are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Infanta Benedita of Portugal, and Josef Dobrovský.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kittur Chennamma ranks 146 out of 1,493. Before her are Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Zakir Husain (1897), Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), and Shantideva (685). After her are V. V. Giri (1894), Green Boots (null), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Kittur Chennamma ranks 10. Before her are Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Gerald Durrell (1925), Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Vinoba Bhave (1895), and Mangal Pandey (1827). After her are Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Vandana Shiva (1952), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Anna Hazare (1937), and Khudiram Bose (1889).

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