Short note of tipu sultan

Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, or Tippoo Sahib as the British called him, was the Indian ruler who resisted the East India Company’s conquest of southern India. Public opinion in England considered him a vicious tyrant, while modern Indian nationalists have hailed him as a freedom fighter, but both views are the products of wishful thinking. A small, plump man with a round face and black moustache, who wore clothes glittering with jewels, Tipu was vigorous, forceful, brave, warlike and cruel; a devout Muslim ruling a mainly Hindu population. He had inherited the throne from his father Haidar Ali, who had driven out the previous Hindu dynasty.

Tipu used to say it was better to live for two days like a tiger than drag out an existence like a sheep for two hundred years. He had a special reverence for tigers. He kept six in his fortress-city of Seringapatam (now Sriringapatna), 200 miles west of Madras, where his throne was shaped and striped like a tiger. His elite troops wore tiger badges, the hilt of his sword was in the form of a snarling tiger, and his favourite toy was a mechanical tiger straddling a British officer while the victim squealed in terror (it is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum). 

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Tipu Sultan (born <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan" title="Sultan">Sultan</a> Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), also known as the <i>Tipu Sahab</i> or Tiger of Mysore, was a ruler of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mysore" title="Kingdom of Mysore">Kingdom of Mysore</a> and a pioneer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_artillery" title="Rocket artillery">rocket artillery</a>. He was the eldest son of Sultan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyder_Ali" title="Hyder Ali">Hyder Ali</a> of Mysore. Tipu Sultan introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including his coinage, a new Mauludi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar" title="Lunisolar calendar">lunisolar calendar</a>, and a new land revenue system which initiated the growth of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_silk" title="Mysore silk">Mysore silk</a> industry. He expanded the iron-cased <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysorean_rockets" title="Mysorean rockets">Mysorean rockets</a> and commissioned the military manual <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathul_Mujahidin" title="Fathul Mujahidin">Fathul Mujahidin</a></i>. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Mysore_Wars" title="Anglo-Mysore Wars">Anglo-Mysore Wars</a>, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pollilur_(1780)" title="Battle of Pollilur (1780)">Battle of Pollilur</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Seringapatam_(1792)" title="Siege of Seringapatam (1792)">Siege of Seringapatam</a>. He also embarked on an ambitious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Kingdom_of_Mysore" title="Economy of the Kingdom of Mysore">economic development program</a> that established Mysore as a major economic power, with some of the world's highest real wages and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_standards" title="Living standards">living standards</a> in the late 18th century.May Be, That's Enough for You.....