In the sci-fi series Expanse, season 3, it was nice to see one of the Martian warships named Kittur Chennamma. She was the second queen (AFAIK) to fight for independence against the British East India company. (The first queen was Velu Nachiar of Sivagangai).
She would win the first battle, and release the captured British with an assurance of no more war.
Similar to the episode between Prithviraj Chauhan & Muhammad Ghori, the company would resume hostilites. She would fight bravely, but be defeated, captured & imprisoned till death. The "Doctrine of Lapse" which disallowed adoptions was used to justify war, as it would be used against Rani Lakshmibai (Manikarnika). Both queens had lost their respective husband & sons.
Some historians have wondered about the suspiciously high number of deaths of young princes in the India ruled by the British East India company. The British kept records but burnt them before India's independence, again similar to the Portuguese burning records of the Goan inquisition.
We may never know.
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