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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Rani Velu Nachiyar
| title = Queen of [[Sivagangai]]<br />Princess of [[Ramanathapuram]]
| image = Velu Nachchiyar 2008 stamp of India.jpg
| caption = Velu Nachchiyar on a 2008 stamp of India
| reign = c. 1780-c. 1790<ref name=r2>K. R. Venkatarama Ayyar (1938) ''A Manual of the Pudukkóttai State''. Sri Brihadamba State Press. p.720</ref>
| coronation = 1780
| full name =
| dynasty = Sethupathi
| successor = [[Vellacci]]<ref name=r2/>
| father = Chellamuthu vijayaragunatha Sethupathy
| mother = Muthathal Nachiyar
| birth_date = 3 January 1730
| birth_place = [[Ramanathapuram]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death-date and age|25 December 1796|3 January 1730}}
| death_place = [[Sivaganga]], Tamil Nadu, India
| date of burial = 25 December 1796
| place of burial = [[Sivaganga]], Tamil Nadu, India
}}

[[file:Sivagangai Aranmanai.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Sivagangai Palace With Rani Velu Nachiyar Statue]]

'''Rani Velu Nachiyar''' (3 January 1730 – 25 December 1796) was a queen of [[Sivaganga estate]] from {{circa}} 1780–1790. She was the first Indian queen to wage war with the [[East India Company]] [[Company rule in India|in India]].<ref>Rohini Ramakrishnan (10 August 2010) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040635/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2010/08/10/stories/2010081050290300.htm Women who made a difference]. ''The Hindu''.</ref><ref name=r1>[http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/remembering-queen-velu-nachiyar-sivagangai-first-queen-fight-british-55163 Remembering Queen Velu Nachiyar of Sivagangai, the first queen to fight the British]. ''The News Minute''. 3 January 2017</ref> She is known by [[Tamils]] as ''Veeramangai'' ("brave woman").<ref>{{cite news|title=Veeramangai Velu Nachiyar|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/cover/veeramangai-velu-nachiyar/article26016399.ece|newspaper=The Hindu Business Line|date=18 January 2019|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>

==Life==
Velu Nachiyar was the princess of [[Ramanathapuram]] and the only child of King Chellamuthu Vijayaragunatha Sethupathy and Queen Sakandhimuthathal of the [[Ramnad estate|Ramnad kingdom]].

Nachiyar was trained in many methods of combat, including war match weapons usage, martial arts like [[Valari]], [[Silambam]], horse riding, and archery. She was a scholar in many languages and was proficient in languages like [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]] and [[Urdu]].<ref name=r1/> She married the king of [[Sivagangai]], with whom she had a daughter. When her husband, [[Muthu Vaduganatha Periyavudaya Thevar]] was killed in a battle with [[Presidency armies|EIC soldiers]], she was drawn into the conflict. She escaped the battlefield with her daughter.<ref>{{cite news|title=Uphill, for history's sake|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/12/24/stories/2007122450130300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228192224/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/12/24/stories/2007122450130300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 February 2008|date=24 December 2007|location=India|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|author=Soma Basu}}</ref>

During this period, she formed an army and sought an alliance with [[Hyder Ali]] with the aim of launching a campaign against the East India Company in 1780. When Velu Nachiyar found the place where the EIC stored some their ammunition, she arranged a [[suicide attack]] on the location, blowing it up.<ref>{{cite news|title=Of woman power and Tamizh glory|url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/of-woman-power-and-tamizh-glory-375394.html|newspaper=IBN Live|date=14 June 2011|location=Chennai, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tamil Nadu to build memorial for freedom fighter Kuyili |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Tamil-Nadu-to-build-memorial-for-freedom-fighter-Kuyili/articleshow/20075937.cms|access-date=13 August 2014 |newspaper=Times of India |date=16 May 2013 |location=Chennai, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=A Durga A Day-Day 6: Mata Katyayini-Rani Velu Nachiyar and Kuyili|url=https://medium.com/@surashiva/a-durga-a-day-day-6-mata-katyayini-rani-velu-nachiyar-and-kuyili-2-durgas-for-today-cb9294203134|date=15 October 2018|location=Chennai, India}}</ref> Nachiyar reinherited the kingdom of her husband, and ruled it for ten more years.<ref>Rohini Ramakrishnan (14 August 2010) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629132608/http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/kids/article560774.ece Women who made a difference]. ''The Hindu''.</ref> In 1790, the throne was inherited by her daughter [[Vellacci]].<ref name=r2/> She granted powers to her daughter with the [[Maruthu Pandiyar|Marudu brothers]] to help with the administration of the kingdom in 1780. Velu Nachiyar died a few years later, on 25 December 1796.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sivaganga.tn.nic.in/history.htm |title=History-Sivaganga district|publisher=Sivaganga dist. – Tamil Nadu govt., India|access-date=24 November 2011}}</ref>

==Popular culture==

On 31 December 2008, a commemorative postage stamp in her name was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Stamps2008.html|title=India Post – Stamps 2008|publisher=Postal department, Government of India }}</ref>

OVM Dance Academy of Chennai presenting "VELU NACHIYAR" a Grand Dance Ballet on Sivaganga Queen.

Professor A.L.I., a Tamil-American [[hip-hop]] artist, released a song dedicated to Velu Nachiyar entitled "Our Queen" as part of his ''Tamilmatic'' album in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://professorali.com/2016/03/07/international-womens-day|title=International Women's Day Dedication to Queen Velu Nachiyar |date=7 March 2016 |publisher=professorali.com}}</ref>

On 21 August 2017, a grand dance ballet was conducted in Naradha Gana Sabha in Chennai depicting the life history of the queen Velu Nachiyar. The play was directed by Sriram Sharma, who researched on the Queen's life history for almost a decade.

==See also==
* [[Puli Thevar]]
* [[Indian independence movement]]
* [[Indian independence activists]]
* [[Vellore mutiny|Vellore mutiny of 1806]]
* [[Kuyili]]
* [[Suicide attack|Suicide Attack]]

==References==
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