What’s worse, he inadvertently gets caught up in a eunuch’s plot against Tipu Sultan. Fortunately, a French clockmaker working in the sultan’s summer palace takes note of Abbas’s skill ...

So by the time he died at the hands of General Harris’s troops, as they besieged his island capital in 1799,Tipu Sultan was possibly the most famous Indian, if not villain, in the United Kingdom.

The Kodavas of the Coorg preserved the memories of his savagery in his fierce bid to subjugate the hilly terrain, Pushpa ...

In England, Tipu Sultan’s legend is not just for some old India hands ... “the schoolroom for everyone”) are more glittering items looted from Tipu’s palace: his pistols signed by its maker, Sayyid ...

The historian Arenahalli Shivashankar Dharmendra Kumar was doing research around the temple when he saw the tailings (remnants) resembling that of an old palace beside the armoury of Tipu Sultan ...

It shows Haider Ali, the sultan of the kingdom ... battle were first commissioned by Tipu himself in 1784. They were painted on the walls and frescoes of his palace - Daria Daulat Bagh - in ...

This past Sunday, November 10, the 274th (or 273rd) birthday of Tipu Sultan was celebrated peacefully in his erstwhile capital, Srirangapatna, amid heavy security. The security was necessary ...

Tipu Sultan, taken from Alexander Beatson's A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan, 1800) Tipu Sultan, known as the dreaded 'Tiger of Mysore', was a legend during his ...