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Controversy over Tipu Sultan in Mumbai

January 29, 2022
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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.

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