Rani Avantibai Lodhi Balidan Diwas is annually observed on
March 20. It is the death anniversary of the Brave Queen Avantibai Lodhi. She
was the wife of Vikramaditya Singh, ruler of Ramgarh in present day Madhya
Pradesh.
Vikramaditya Singh had no heir. So the British attached the
kingdom and did not allow Rani Avantibai Lodhi to succeed the throne.
Rani Avantibai Lodhi, who belonged to the Lodhi warrior
clan, vowed to fight the British to regain her land and her throne. She raised
an army of four thousand and personally led it against the British in 1857.