the famous Tipu’s Tiger, a mechanical automaton built by local craftsmen using local materials, possibly with inputs from French engineers. It featured a painted wooden tiger mauling a man who ...

London: Oxford University Press. Chakraborty, A. 2013. “That Disgrace in Human Form: Tipu Sultan and the Politics of Representation in Three 19th Century English Novels”. Rupkatha Journal on ...

In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.' - Tipu Sultan, taken from Alexander Beatson's A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo ...

For them, Tipu Sultan unleashed jihad against the Hindu populace, especially in the Malabar region of Kerala. Amid all this, historian Vikram Sampath, with his latest book on the ‘Tiger of ...

Tipu, known as the "Tiger of Mysore", became the Company's fiercest foe until he was defeated and killed in 1799. Historian William Dalrymple has described the painting of what unfolded in ...