A lot of people who fought against the British are not remembered enough significant one of them is VEERAPANDIYA KATTABOMAN who’s considered to be a Robinhood like figure when Vijaynagar empire was in power they appointed Palayakaras which means like administrative governors they were given charge of a group of villages. When the British started taking over that region they wanted control Palayakaras too. But VEERAPANDIYA KATTABOMAN Palayakara refused to bow down the British and waged war against them later a meeting with a British officer over the collection of taxes ended in violence and that British man was killed by VEERAPANDIYA. The British waged war against him but VEERAPANDIYA KATTABOMAN fought with everything he had until he got captured. But how he got captured ? Because he was betrayed by ETTAPAN an another local chieftain then he was sentenced to death and was publicly hanged infront of the people