⚔ Battle

Kittur revolt against the Company

1824 – present · 📍 Kittur

What it led to: Rani Chennamma won an early victory but was captured in a second assault.

🗺 See the map in 1824

Where it happened.

Meanwhile (within 10 years)

1814 ⚔ Anglo-Nepal War: siege of Nalapani · Kingdom of Nepal — expansion era
1815 Kandyan Convention · Kingdom of Kandy
1816 Treaty of Sugauli · Kingdom of Nepal
1817 ⚔ Battle of Khadki · Maratha Empire
1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War ends · Maratha Empire
1826 Treaty of Yandabo · Ahom Kingdom
1828 Brahmo Samaj founded · British East India Company
1829 Sati abolished · British East India Company

Alive at the time

Tyagaraja

Carnatic composer, one of the musical Trinity

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Founder of the Brahmo Samaj who campaigned against sati

Lalon Fakir

c. 1774 – c. 1890

Baul mystic poet of Bengal

Kunwar Singh

Octogenarian leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar

Kittur Chennamma

Queen of Kittur who led an armed revolt against the Company in 1824

Hari Singh Nalwa

Sikh general who governed Peshawar

Mirza Ghalib

Urdu and Persian poet of Delhi

James Prinsep

Deciphered the Brahmi script and Ashoka's edicts

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