Dheeran Chinnamalai’s 221st death anniversary observed in Erode district

It was in Odanilai that Dheeran Chinnamalai built a fort after the fall of Tipu Sultan, alongside whom he had fought the British in the Anglo-Mysore Wars; he led campaigns on the banks of the Cauvery, at Odanilai and at Arachalur before being captured and executed by the British at Sankari Fort on Aadi 18, 1805