Veerapandiya Kattabomman is a book written on the biography of
Veerapandiya Kattabomman
Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Tamil Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India. He refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged a war against them. He was captured by the Briti ...
by M. P. Sivagnanam (
Ma. Po. Si.). The first edition of the book was published in the 1940s.
Later the book took many publications. This was one of Ma.Po.Si's 100 books that were taken over by the Government.
Ma. Po. Si. brings out the inevitable role that Kattabomman played in pioneering the freedom movement in India.Ma.Po. Si illustrates how Veerapandiya Kattabomman expressed the first agitation against the British colonisation. His agitation paved way to the Vellore Mutiny in 1806. It was only after 50 years of these two rebellions down the South,Seppoy Mutiny\
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...
started in North.
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