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Tippoo Sultan

Tipu Sultan , The Traitor
Badshah
Nasib ad-Dawlah
Sultan Sayyid walShareef Fateh Ali Khan Bahadur Tipu
Tipu Sultan BL.jpg
Sultan of Mysore
Reign 29 December 1782 – 4 May 1799
Coronation 29 December 1782
Predecessor Hyder Ali
Successor Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
Born (1750-11-10)10 November 1750
Devanahalli, present-day Bangalore, Karnataka
Died 4 May 1799(1799-05-04) (aged 48)
Srirangapatna, present-day Mandya,Karnataka
Burial Srirangapatna, present-day Mandya,Karnataka
12°24′36″N 76°42′50″E / 12.41000°N 76.71389°E / 12.41000; 76.71389Coordinates: 12°24′36″N 76°42′50″E / 12.41000°N 76.71389°E / 12.41000; 76.71389
Full name
Badshah Nasibuddaulah Sayyid walShareef Sultan Fateh Ali Bahadur Sahab Tipu
House Mysore
Father Hyder Ali
Mother Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa
Religion Islam
Full name
Badshah Nasibuddaulah Sayyid walShareef Sultan Fateh Ali Bahadur Sahab Tipu

Tipu Sultan (10 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), (Sayyid walShareef Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu) also known as the Tiger of Mysore, and Tipu Sahib, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He was the eldest son of Sultan Haidar Ali of Mysore. Tipu introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including his coinage, a new Mauludi lunisolar calendar, and a new land revenue system which initiated the growth of Mysore silk industry. Tipu expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and commissioned the military manual Fathul Mujahidin. He is considered a pioneer in the use of rocket artillery. Tipu Sultan deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies in their 1792 and 1799 Siege of Srirangapatna.

Napoleon, the French commander-in-chief who later became emperor, sought an alliance with Tipu. In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers, both Tipu and his father used their French trained army against the Marathas, Sira, and rulers of Malabar, Kodagu, Bednore, Carnatic, and Travancore. During Tipu's childhood, his father rose to take power in Mysore, and upon his father's death in 1782, Tipu succeeded to a large kingdom bordered by the Krishna River in the north, the Eastern Ghats in the east, and the Arabian Sea in the west. He won important victories against the British in the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and negotiated the 1784 Treaty of Mangalore with them after his father Hyder Ali suddenly died from cancer in December 1782 during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.


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