Controversy over Tipu Sultan in Mumbai

In news-Mysore King Tipu Sultan is at the centre of a controversy in Mumbai as Minister is planning to name a playground in the Muslim dominated Malwani locality after the 17th century ruler.

A brief history of Tipu Sultan-

He was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India.
He was born in 1750, Devanahalli, Karnataka.
He had inherited the throne from his father Haidar Ali, who had driven out the previous Hindu dynasty.
In 1767 Tippu commanded a corps of cavalry against the Marathas in the Carnatic (Karnataka) region of western India, and he fought against the Marathas on several occasions between 1775 and 1779.

War between Mysore and Maratha ended with the Treaty of Gajendragad.

He was the pioneer of rocket artillery.
He introduced sericulture in Mysore on a large scale and maintained records about the cultivation of sericulture.
Tipu established banking networks and cooperatives, where capital was raised from the public (similar to banks inviting deposits), the principal held on an annual basis and returned with interest (or `nafa’).
He established trading houses for Mysore products worldwide, including places like Puducherry , Kutch, Karachi, Oman, Baghdad and Constantinople.

Both Tipu Sultan and his father used their French-trained army in alliance with the French in their struggle with the British and fought 4 Anglo-Mysore wars.
At the age of 15, Tipu Sultan supported his father in the first Anglo-Mysore War against the British in 1766.
During the second Anglo-Mysore War he defeated Col. John Brathwaite.
He succeeded his father in December 1782 and in 1784 concluded peace with the British and assumed the title of Sultan of Mysore.
In 1789, however, he provoked British invasion by attacking their ally, the Raja of Travancore led to the third Anglo- Mysore war.
The war ended by the signing of Treaty of Srirangapatna, between Tipu Sultan and Lord Cornwallis.
In this treaty, Tipu ceded half of his territories and two of his son’s as a hostage of war.
The Governor-general, Lord Mornington (later the Marquess of Wellesley), launched the fourth Anglo-Mysore War and on May 4, 1799, Tippu died in Srirangapatna, leading his troops in the breach.