Views in Mysore. The Daria Dowlut in Seringapatam. Frescoes on wall - 1868
Photograph from an album of 40 albumen prints by Edmund David Lyon. Karnataka has a long tradition of paintings used to decorate the walls of temples and palaces, although most surviving paintings date from the post-Vij...
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Please read all three pages in a sequence. An amazing eye witness account of Tipu's fall....A contemporary account of Tipu's death, from "The True American Commercial Advertiser" (Philadelphia), March 18, 1800 - PAGE 1.
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Tippoo's Tiger.
'Better to live a day as a tiger than a lifetime as a sheep' - Tipu Sultan
The Tiger comes to London
'Tippoo's Tiger' is an awesome, life-size beast of carved and painted wood, seen in the act of devouring a prostrate European in the costume of the 1790s. It has cast a spell ov...
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PLAN of the Position of the Confederate Armies under the direction of Earl Cornwallis before Seringapatam from the 5th to the 24th February 1792 when the Cessation of Hostilities took place...
This pen and ink and watercolour plan was drawn by Robert Home (1752-1834) in 1792. It is ...
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Online Digital Edition :
THE DREAMS OF TIPU SULTAN
Translated from the original Persian
By Mahmud Husain Ph.D. - Professor of History, University of Karachi.
"In the India Office Library there is a very valuable and interesting manuscript containing Tipu Sultan's dreams 'in his own handwritin...
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Online digital edition:
Official documents relative to the negotiations carried on by TIPPOO SULTAUN with the French Nation and other foreign states, for the purposes hostile to the British Nation, to which is added Proceedings of a Jacobin Club formed at Seringapatam by the French soldiers in t...
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