KITTUR KARNATAKA    

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• The Karnataka Cabinet renamed the Mumbai-Karnataka region, consisting of seven districts, as Kittur Karnataka.

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• The Cabinet has decided to rechristen the Mumbai-Karnataka region, consisting of Uttara Kannada, Belagavi, Dharwad, Vijayapura, Bagalkote, Gadag and Haveri districts, as Kittur Karnataka.
• Pro-Kannada organisations in the state had long raised the demand to rename the region that had been under the erstwhile Bombay Presidency before Independence.
• It recently renamed the Hyderabad-Karnataka region as Kalyana Karnataka.
• Maharashtra has staked claim to an area of over 7,000 sq km along its border with Karnataka, comprising 814 villages in the districts of Belagavi, Uttara Kannada, Bidar and Gulbarga, and the towns of Belagavi, Karwar and Nippani. Maharashtra wants to annex all these areas.
• The erstwhile Bombay Presidency, a multilingual province, included present-day Karnataka districts of Vijayapura, Belagavi, Dharwad and Uttara Kannada.
• The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 made Belagavi and 10 talukas of Bombay State a part of the then Mysore State (which was renamed Karnataka in 1973).
• The name Kittur comes after a historical taluk in north Karnataka’s Belagavi district that was ruled by Rani Chennamma (1778-1829).
• Kittur Rani Chennamma had fought against the British about 40 years before Jhansi Rani Laxmibai.

Kittur Chennamma

• Kittur Chennamma was the Indian Queen (Rani) of Kittur, a princely state in Karnataka.
• She led an armed rebellion against the British East India Company (BEIC) in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse in an attempt to maintain Indian control over the region, in which she defeated them, but she was dead in the imprisonment of second rebellion by the British East India Company.
• One of the first female rulers to rebel against British rule, she became a folk hero in Karnataka and symbol of the independence movement in India.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/mumbai-karnataka-region-rechristened-as-kittur-karnataka-7618512/