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Tipu Sultan

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Tipu Sultan Story - Kings of India | History for Kids | Educational Videos by Mocomi

 

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Tipu Sultan - title song original

 

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Tipu Sultan Intro

 

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Tipu sultan | Muslim edit

 

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UK Is Auctioning Off Tipu Sultan's Throne Finial Stole From India

Tipu Sultan, also known as the Tipu Sahib, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He was the eldest son of Sultan Hyder Ali of Mysore. Tipu Sultan introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including his coinage, a new Mauludi lunisolar calendar, and a new land revenue system which initiated the growth of the Mysore silk industry. He expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and commissioned the military manual Fathul Mujahidin, and is considered a pioneer in the use of rocket artillery. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies during the Anglo-Mysore Wars, including the Battle of Pollilur and Siege of Seringapatam. He also embarked on an ambitious economic development program that established Mysore as a major economic power, with some of the world's highest real wages and living standards in the late 18th century.
  • Personal 

  • Childhood 

  • Early military service 

  • Second Anglo-Mysore War 

  • Conflicts with Maratha Confederacy 

  • The Invasion of Travancore by Sultanate of Mysore (1766–1790) 

  • Third Anglo-Mysore War 

  • Napoleon's attempt at a junction 

  • Fourth Anglo-Mysore War 

  • Mysorean rockets 

  • Navy 

  • Economy 

  • Foreign relations 

  • Moral Administration 

  • Religious policy 

  • British accounts 

  • Relations with Muslims 

  • Hindu officers 

  • Regular endowments to 156 Hindu temples 

  • Sringeri incident, Maratha sacking, and rebuilding temple 

  • Controversial figure 

  • Persecution of Hindus outside Mysore 

  • Inscriptions 

  • Persecution of Mangalorean Catholics 

  • The coinage system 

  • Coinage dating system 

  • Assessment and legacy 

  • Family 

  • Sword and tiger 

  • Tipu Sultan Jayanti 

  • In fiction