Sangolli rayanna biography in english

Great post!!. Post a Comment. These two dates, which are connected with the destiny of our revered nation, are inextricably linked with one of the heroes of India - Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna, a forgotten hero who made his supreme sacrifice fighting the British.

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On the occasion of our Independence day, 15th August, which also happens to be the birthday of Rayanna, I had paid my reverence to him by posting a Facebook post and now on the occasion of the seventieth year of our Republic Day, 26th January, which incidentally also happens to be the day when Rayanna, made his supreme sacrifice and was hanged by the British, I am once again writing this reverential post to pay my obeisance to him.

While wishing all fellow Indians including all those Indians who are spread across the globe a very happy 70th year of our Republic Day, I wish to take this opportunity of using this auspicious occasion to pay my reverence to those millions of Indians - the freedom fighters, our military and para military brethren and innumerable others - who made supreme sacrifice in service of our nation and continue to do so.

One such valiant hero who made his supreme sacrifice trying to fight the British East India Company for their injustice, decades before the beagle of the first battle of independence was blown by the likes of Rani Jhansi and others, was Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna, a general in the Kittur kingdom, down south of India. Most unfortunately history writers have been majorly unfair to him and he is one among those freedom fighter heroes, who have been mostly forgotten or at most find a foot note mention in history books.

Fortunately, the state to which Rayanna belongs - Karnataka - has been fair to him and his valour gets echoed in the legendary tales that have transcended down generations from the early nineteenth century. Sangolli Rayanna, has a unique honour of sharing his life and death destiny with our nation. He shares his birthday with our Independence Day - born on the 15th August, and he made the supreme sacrifice in service of this nation, when he was hanged by the British East India Company on the 26th January- Republic Day - in This blog tribute of mine to the great Sangolli Rayanna is also a tribute to those hundreds of millions of other unsung freedom fighters without whose sacrifice Mahatma Gandhi - the father of our nation - and an apostle of peace, whose sesquicentennial centennial birth anniversary we are celebrating, may not have been successful in getting us our freedom with his non violent, peaceful and non cooperation movement against the oppressive British rulers.

It is so painful that even after seven decades of our Republic, most Indians, except those from the state of Karnataka, hardly have heard the name of Sangolli Rayanna. Not just Sangolli Rayanna, history writers have mostly been unfair to the South Indian kingdoms and their great rulers that include among others the Cholas, Vijaynagar, Hoysalas and to some extent even the Chalukyan kingdom and their rulers, whose contributions have mostly been skimmed over by the historians.

Therefore it is no wonder that for most Indians, particularly young students, the name of Sangolli Rayanna might sound like a stranger.

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Rayanna is regarded as one of the most valiant warriors in Karnataka, who fought till death against the villainy of the erstwhile British East India Company. Rayanna was born on 15 August , in a nondescript village, Sangolli in Karnataka. He became a prominent warrior at a very young age and raised to the significant position of the Army Chief of the Kingdom of Kittur, which was ruled at the time by Queen Rani Chennamma, who was one of the first female rulers to rebel against the British rule.