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<p>103.149.158.185: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}<br /> [[File:Vaikom Padmanabha Pillai.jpeg|thumb|Vaikom Padmanabha Pillai]]<br /> '''Vaikom Padmanabha Pillai ''' (1767–1809) was a militia leader and military officer of the [[Kingdom of Travancore]] (now roughly the [[India]]n state of [[Kerala]]). In 1808 he led [[Travancore War|an uprising]] against British control in Travancore. He was captured in 1809 and hanged for [[Indian independence activists|his role in the rebellion]].<br /> <br /> ==Life==<br /> He was born in the principality of [[Travancore]] and was called up in to the [[Travancore Army]] in 1789, when [[Tipu Sultan]] invaded Travancore. He was one of the 20 reserve soldiers from the Nandyat [[Kalari]] who [[Battle of the Nedumkotta (1789)|ambushed]] the huge [[Mysore]] Army in the [[Nedumkotta]] fortifications in December 1789.{{cn|date=July 2021}} He also played an active role in the defeat of Tipu Sultan at the hands of the Travancore Army during the second battle in April 1790. After this he served as a [[General officer|general]] in Travancore Maharaja's militia.&lt;ref&gt;Malayalam Novel &quot;Rama Raja Bahudur&quot; authored by C. V. Raman Pillai .&lt;/ref&gt;{{unreliable source?|date=July 2021}}<br /> <br /> When [[Velu Thampi Dalawa]] rebelled against the [[British East India Company]], Padmanabha Pillai was his army chief. Freedom fighters under Padmanabha Pillai attacked British Resident Col. Macaulay in Poonjikkara Residency (now, Bolghaty Palace) in December 1808, but could not capture him. Later he ambushed a party of British soldiers at [[Pallathuruthy]] near Alappuzha which resulted in the deaths of 13 British soldiers. Padmanabha Pillai was captured by the British and hanged in public a few days later at Thiruveli kunnu in Vaikom.&lt;ref&gt;A tragic decade in Kerala history By T. P. Sankarankutty Nair p.80&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;The History of freedom movement in Kerala, Volume 1 By P. K. K. Menon, Regional Records Survey Committee, Kerala State p.37&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090309014147/http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/03/stories/2009030357340200.htm The Hindu article on Vaikom Padmanabha Pillai]<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Padmanabha Pillai, Vaikom}}<br /> [[Category:1809 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:People of the Kingdom of Travancore]]<br /> [[Category:Military personnel from Kerala]]<br /> [[Category:Malayali people]]<br /> [[Category:1767 births]]<br /> [[Category:Indian rebels]]<br /> [[Category:18th-century Indian people]]<br /> [[Category:People from Vaikom]]</div>

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