Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan

Subject: History

Context: Nearly 1,000 km from where he once ruled, Mysore King Tipu Sultan is at the centre of controversy in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation over attempts to name a garden after him in Govandi, a suburb in Eastern Mumbai. A look at the genesis of the controversy and more.

Concept:

• Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, was the Indian ruler who resisted the East India Company’s conquest of southern India.
• He tried to build up an alliance to drive the British – ‘those oppressors of the human race’ – out of India and intrigued with the French in Paris and Mauritiusv
• The governor-general, Lord Mornington (later the marquess of Wellesley), launched the fourth Anglo Mysore War. Seringapatam (now Srirangapatna), Tippu’s capital, was stormed by British-led forces on May 4, 1799, and Tippu died leading his troops in the breach

Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784)

• Warren Hastings attacked, Haider Ali.
• Tipu Sultan signed Treaty of Mangalore in March 1784 which ended the second Anglo-Mysore war.

Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789-1792)

• The third war was fought between Tipu Sultan, and British East Indian Company and ended in Tipu’s defeat. In this war, Marathas and Nizam aided the British and Cornwallis captured Bangalore
• . The war ended by signing of Treaty of Seringapatna, Tipu ceded half of his territories and two of his son’s as a hostage of war.

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1799)

• In Fourth War 1799, the British army led by Lord Wellesley attacked and defeated Tipu Sultan.