• PM recently paid tributes to Rani Velu Nachiyar on her birth anniversary.

About Rani Velu Nachiyar (3^rd Jan 1730 – 25^th Dec 1796)

• Also known as Veeramangai, she was the princess of the Ramnad Kingdom of Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu.
• She is revered as the first queen to fight against the British colonial power in India.
• In collaboration with Hyder Ali and Gopala Nayaker, she waged war against British.
• She was proficient in languages like French, English, and Urdu.
• Nachiyar became queen of the Sivaganga estate (present-day Tamil Nadu) in 1780 after her husband Muthuvaduganathaperiya Udaiyathevar’s death.
  • She ruled until 1790.
• She went on to produce the first human bomb as well as establish the first army of trained women soldiers in the late 1700s.