Tipu Sultan (c 1750-1799) was born in Devanhalli, Karnataka. His father, Hyder Ali, made himself Muslim ruler of Mysore around 1761. From an early age Tipu accompanied his father on military ...
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar attended the launch of historian Vikram Sampath's book Tipu Sultan: The Saga of the Mysore Interregnum 1761-1799 at the India Habitat Centre ...
Jaishankar underlined that Tipu Sultan is a "complex figure" in Indian ... Asserting that to call Sampath's book a biography would be a serious understatement, he said, "It is something very ...