An opponent of the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, information concerning her is sparse and mostly comes from folklore.

Rani Avantibai got the responsibility of publicity for organizing the huge conference led under the chairmanship of Gond Raja Shankar Shah.

Discharging her responsibility, the queen sent glass bangles along with the letter to the kings and landlords of the neighboring states and wrote in the letter Either tighten your waist to protect the motherland or sit at home wearing glass bangles, you should fulfill the oath to your religion Whoever read this message got ready to sacrifice everything for the country.

[4] However, when facing almost certain defeat in battle, she sacrificed her life for the protection of the motherland by piercing herself with her sword on 20 March 1858.

In Ramgarh, some distance away from the ruins of the palace towards the bottom of hill, there is a tomb of Rani, which is in very dilapidated condition.

[6] One such folk song is of the Gond people, a forest dweller tribe of the region, which says:[7] The Rani who is our mother, strikes repeatedly at the British.

Although little is known of Avantibai except through folklore, her story merited a brief inclusion in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) history textbooks from 2012 as a participant in the 1857 rebellion, after parliamentary protests from the Bharatiya Janata Party .

The Narmada Valley Development Authority named a part of the Bargi Dam project in Jabalpur in her honour.