Person · rebel military commander
Sangolli Rayanna
Also known as Rayanna
Sangolli Rayanna (15 August 1798 - 26 January 1831), the chief military commander of the 1824 Kittur Revolt under Kittur Rani Chennamma and the subsequent 1829-1830 Kittur guerilla campaign against the British East India Company. Born at Sangolli village in Belagavi district, Rayanna continued the Kittur resistance for two years after Chennamma's death, raising peasant armies and recovering several Kittur villages. He was captured through betrayal in April 1830 and publicly hanged at Nandagad on 26 January 1831. The 2008 Karnataka government's Sangolli Rayanna Birthday celebration each 15 August and the Bengaluru City Railway Station renaming (2008 Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station) honour his legacy.
- Date
- 1798–1831
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- Court associationKittur Chennamma
Rani Chennamma of Kittur and her chief military commander Sangolli Rayanna led the 1824 Kittur Revolt against the British East India Company together. After Chennamma's 1829 death at Bailhongal Fort imprisonment, Rayanna continued the Kittur resistance for two more years as a guerilla campaign across the Belgaum-Bagalkot hills before his 1830 capture and 1831 Nandagad execution. The Chennamma-Rayanna pair is central to Karnataka's anti-colonial narrative.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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