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I am sure, you know about Mangal pandey, Bhagat singh and their great heroic sacrifice. But most of us doesn't even have heard about the Maruthu Pandiyar brothers, the rulers of Sivaganga kingdom.
On Oct 24,1801,they were publicly hanged to death at Tirupputhur fort by British.
On Oct 24,1801,they were publicly hanged to death at Tirupputhur fort by British.
On October 24, 1801, along with maruthu brothers, their sons, their young grandsons, fellow rebels, commanders and servants, were publicly hanged to death at the Tirupputhur fort of southern #TamilNadu. supposedly from palmyra trees around the fort.
With those mass executions, the British East India Company and its allies successfully put an end to a fierce rebellion by the Southern kingdoms of India – a revolt that is little remembered, and barely finds mention in history textbooks. Not even #NCERTS
