Tipu Sultan (20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India. He introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including a new coinage system and calendar. In post-colonial Indian subcontinent, he is applauded as a secular ruler who fought against British colonialism. But he has been criticized for his repression of Hindus of Malabar and Christians of Mangalore.
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Tipu Sultan (20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India. He introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including a new coinage system and calendar. He expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and commissioned the military manual Fathul Mujahidin. In post-colonial Indian subcontinent, he is applauded as a secular ruler who fought against British colonialism. But he has been criticized for his repression of Hindus of Malabar and Christians of Mangalore for both religious and political reasons. Tipu’s conflicts with his neighbours included the Maratha–Mysore War which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Gajendragad. He was killed while defending his fort of Seringapatam in the Fourth Anglo-Mysores War, and he was defeated by the Marathas in 1799. His son, Hyder Ali, succeeded to the throne after his father’s death in 1782. He won important victories against the British and negotiated the 1784 Treaty of Mang Bangalore with them. He sent emissaries to foreign states, including the Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan, and France, in an attempt to rally opposition to the British. He also embarked on an ambitious economic development program that established Mysores as a major economic power, with some of the world’s highest real wages and living standards in the late 18th century.
He is also known as Tipu Sahab or the Tiger of MYSore, after the saint Tipu Mastan Aulia of Arcot. His mother Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa was the daughter of Mir Muin-ud-Din, the governor of the fort of Kadapa, Persian Kannisada, Urdu, Persian, and Islamic jurudence, riding, shooting, shooting and fencing. At the age of 15, he accompanied his father against his father in the First Mysoren War in 1766. He commanded a corps of cavalry in the invasion of Carnatic in 1767 at the age 16. He distinguished himself in First Anglo-Maratha War of 1775–1779 with Tippu Sultu Sultan, who described him as ‘the Tiger of the War with the Tippoo Sult’ Tipu Sultan was described as ‘tough, brave and brave’ by Alexander Beatson, who published a volume on the Fourth War of the Fourth MysORE War. He died of a heart attack in 1798 at the aged of 48, and was buried in the Seringpatam Fort. He had been given independent charge of important diplomatic and military missions by his father, who was his right arm in the wars from which Hyder emerged as the most powerful ruler of southern India. His father died from cancer in December 1782 during the Second Anglo-mysore Wars, and Tipu succeeded him as the ruler. He remained an implacable enemy of the British East India Company, sparking conflict with his attack on Travancore in 1789.
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