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3 January is birth anniversary of India’s first female freedom fighter,
Rani Velu Nachiyar.
¨ "Veeramangai" Rani Velu Nachiyar
was born on 3 January 1730.
¨ She was a queen of Sivaganga estate, which
was a permanently settled zamindari estate in the Ramnad sub-division of Madura
district, Madras Presidency.
¨ She was the first Indian queen to wage war
with the East India Company.
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She is proudly known by Tamils as Veeramangai ("brave woman").
