Veerapandya Kattabomman of Panchalankurichi, hanged by the Company in 1799, is associated with which series of risings?

The correct answer is A, the Poligar Rebellions. The poligars were military chiefs of the Tirunelveli and Madurai region who held land in return for keeping troops. When the Company demanded tribute and tried to disarm them, they fought a long series of risings between 1795 and 1805, in which Kattabomman of Panchalankurichi and later the Marudhu Pandiyar brothers of Sivaganga were the best known leaders. B is wrong because the Ramosi uprisings of 1822-29 were in the Western Ghats around Satara, under Chittur Singh and Umaji Naik. C is wrong because the Gadkari revolt of 1844 was a rising of the hereditary garrison soldiers of Kolhapur. D is wrong because the Chuar uprising took place in the Jungle Mahals of Bengal. The poligar or palayakkarar system itself came down from the Nayaka rulers of Madurai, which is why the chiefs claimed an authority older than the Company's and refused to accept it as their overlord.