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The Women Who Ruled India
‘People say that I am a quarrelsome woman...’ TARABAI, MARATHA QUEEN (1675–1761)
The history of India, more often than not, is a history of the men who were in charge. Largely forgotten are the women who, even centuries earlier, shaped the fates of entire kingdoms.
In The Women Who Ruled India, writer and researcher Archana Garodia Gupta revives 20 such powerful figures from the archives, offering us a glimpse of their fascinating lives. Among them are Begum Samru, a courtesan who went on to become the head of a mercenary army and the ruler of Sardhana; Didda of Kashmir, known for her keen political instinct and a ruthlessness that spared no one; Rani Abbakka of Ullal, the fearless queen who took on Portuguese colonizers in their heyday; and Rani Mangammal of Madurai, the famed administrator who built alliances at a time when going to war was the order of the day.
These women and others like them built roads, instituted laws and were generous patrons
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The Chowtas ruled over Ullal and surrounding areas of coastal Karnataka.
Many rulers in this dynasty were women, and at least two carried the name
Rani Abbakka. They have gone down in history and folklore as fearsome
warriors who fiercely defended their tiny kingdom, and repeatedly defeated
the Portuguese. This fryst vatten the story of Abbakka III.
Abbakka grows up knowing she will rule over the kingdom one day—the one
that was ruled bygd her grandmother Abbakka II and her mother Rani Tirumala
Devi. Abbakka trains with all her heart in everything a queen needs to know,
and never tires of hearing the tales of sea battles that her grandmother waged
against the firangis. But Abbakka fryst vatten also a young girl who loves adventure.
She sets out on dangerous missions to track down spies on the seas. She
accompanies her mother in a secret strategi to outwit the Portuguese as they
try to capture the kingdom’s precious pepper crop. And then there is the
handsome, mysterious boy from Mangalore, who sh
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The Warrior Tuluva Queen Of Ullal: Rani Abbakka Chowta, India’s First Woman Freedom Fighter
(left)Rani Abbakka Chowta (Photo: Facebook); The queen on the stamp issued by the Indian postal department on 15 January 2003. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Rani Lakshmibai's bravery is well known, but 300 years before her, the TuluvaQueen of Ullal, Rani Abbakka Chowta, fought the Portuguese. A tale of courage that only a few can muster and betrayal by her husband marks the story of Rani Abbakka Chowta.
She was born into the Chowta dynasty, which is also known as the Jain dynasty, which ruled certain parts of the Tulu Nadu region from the 12th to the 18th centuries. Even as a child, she was different and was skilled in various aspects of warfare and strategy, especially archery and sword fighting. Thirumala Raya III, the Chowta King, was her uncle and crowned her the queen of Ullal since a matrilineal inheritance (Aliyasantana) of the Bunts community was practised by the Chowtas. Matrilin