In 'Loot,' Tipu's Tiger tells a story of war, art and love NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Tania James about her new novel, Loot. The plot travels from India to Europe, touching on war, immigration ...

Tipu Sultan's mechanical tiger, an almost life-sized representation of a tiger mauling a prostate European soldier, is now displayed at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. (Image via Wikimedia ...

Tipu’s Tiger may well have been a product of Tipu’s fancy, meant to inspire him after his defeat in the Third Anglo-Mysore War in 1792, following which he not only lost half his kingdom but ...

Tipu — the Tiger of Mysore — really did have a thing for big cats, and there were Frenchmen in southern India when England was waging war against the country in the late 18th century.

Three lions and Tipu’s Tiger The artefact sitting in V&A was iconic, identifiable and far away from home Updated - May 07, 2018 05:46 pm IST . ROHIT CHAKRABORTY.

A man with many names Tipu Sultan also referred to as Tipu Sahib or the Tiger of Mysore is renowned for his bravery in the wars against the British East India Company. Loved by many, hated by ...

Tipu’s Tiger may well have been a product of Tipu’s fancy, meant to inspire him after his defeat in the Third Anglo-Mysore War in 1792, following which he not only lost half his kingdom but ...

SHAPIRO: "Tipu's Tiger" - Tipu is the ruler who commissioned it? JAMES: Yes. It's a giant mechanical tiger, as you described, and I just was so enchanted by it.

In the late 1700s, an Indian ruler commissioned an incredible work of art. It's carved out of wood - a tiger attacking a man. And inside the tiger is a musical instrument similar to a pipe organ ...