Tipu Sultan's name still divides opinion more than two centuries after his death in 1799, and this history examines why the ruler of Mysore remains so hard to place.
The account traces the rise of his father Haidar Ali, who displaced the Wodeyar line and took the Mysore throne in 1761, then follows the four Anglo-Mysore Wars that set the kingdom against the English East India Company. Military campaigns, treaty terms and the violence that followed them are set alongside the arguments historians and politicians continue to have about the man himself.
What this title covers:
• Haidar Ali's climb from soldier to sovereign and the overthrow that put Mysore in his hands
• The four Anglo-Mysore Wars and the shifting fortunes of the Company in southern India
• Campaigns into Malabar, Mangalore, Travancore and Coorg, and the destruction left behind
• Why the same record supports sharply opposed readings of Tipu's rule today
Suited to readers of South Asian history, students of the colonial period and anyone following the debates around eighteenth-century Mysore. Available at Boipoka.
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