56 Facts About Tippu Sultan

Tippu Sultan introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including a new coinage system and calendar, and a new land revenue system, which initiated the growth of the Mysore silk industry.

Tippu Sultan expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and commissioned the military manual Fathul Mujahidin.

Tippu Sultan deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies during the Anglo-Mysore Wars, including the Battle of Pollilur and Siege of Srirangapatna.

Tippu Sultan won important victories against the British in the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

Tippu Sultan sent emissaries to foreign states, including the Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan, and France, in an attempt to rally opposition to the British.

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Tippu Sultan was named "Tipu Sultan" after the saint Tipu Mastan Aulia of Arcot.

Tippu Sultan was his father's right arm in the wars from which Hyder emerged as the most powerful ruler of southern India.

Tipu Tippu Sultan was instructed in military tactics by French officers in the employment of his father.

Tippu Sultan commanded a corps of cavalry in the invasion of Carnatic in 1767 at age 16.

Tipu Tippu Sultan seized all the guns and took the entire detachment prisoner.

Tipu Tippu Sultan realised that the British were a new kind of threat in India.

Tippu Sultan then worked on to check the advances of the British by making alliances with the Marathas and the Mughals.

However Tipu Tippu Sultan wanted to escape from the treaty of Marathas and therefore tried to take some Maratha forts in Southern India, which were captured by Marathas in the previous war.

In return, Tipu Tippu Sultan would get all the region that he had captured during the war.

In 1766, when Tipu Tippu Sultan was just 15 years old, he got the chance to apply his military training in battle for the first time, when he accompanied his father on an invasion of Malabar.

In 1789, Tipu Tippu Sultan disputed the acquisition by Dharma Raja of Travancore of two Dutch-held fortresses in Cochin.

Tippu Sultan then descended into the Carnatic, eventually reaching Pondicherry, where he attempted without success to draw the French into the conflict.

Tippu Sultan paid the amount in two instalments and got back his sons from Madras.

Tippu Sultan planted a Liberty Tree and declared himself Citizen Tipoo.

Tipu Sultan was killed at the Hoally Gateway, which was located 300 yards from the N E Angle of the Srirangapatna Fort.

Tippu Sultan was buried the next afternoon at the Gumaz, next to the grave of his father.

The death of Tipu Tippu Sultan was celebrated with declaration of public holiday in britain.

Tippu Sultan was one of the few Indian rulers to have defeated British armies.

Tipu Tippu Sultan's father had expanded on Mysore's use of rocketry, making critical innovations in the rockets themselves and the military logistics of their use.

In 1786 Tipu Tippu Sultan, again following the lead of his father, decided to build a navy consisting of 20 battleships of 72 cannons and 20 frigates of 65 cannons.

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Tipu Tippu Sultan ordered that the ships have copper-bottoms, an idea that increased the longevity of the ships and was introduced to Tipu by Admiral Suffren.

Tipu Tippu Sultan laid the foundation for the construction of the Kannambadi dam on the Kaveri river, as attested by an extant stone plaque bearing his name, but was unable to begin the construction.

Tippu Sultan sent an expert to Bengal Subah to study silk cultivation and processing, after which Mysore began developing polyvoltine silk.

Tipu Tippu Sultan was considered as pioneer of road construction, especially in Malabar, as part of his campaigns, he connected most of the cities by roads.

Tippu Sultan earned the title "Nasib-ud-Daula" with the heavy heart of those loyal to Shah Alam II.

Disheartened, Tipu Tippu Sultan began to establish contacts with other Muslim rulers of that period.

Tipu Tippu Sultan was the master of his own diplomacy with foreign nations, in his quest to rid India of the East India Company and to ensure the international strength of France.

In 1787, Tipu Tippu Sultan sent an embassy to the Ottoman capital Constantinople, to the Ottoman Tippu Sultan Abdul Hamid I requesting urgent assistance against the British East India Company.

Tipu Tippu Sultan requested the Ottoman Tippu Sultan to send him troops and military experts.

Furthermore, Tipu Tippu Sultan requested permission from the Ottomans to contribute to the maintenance of the Islamic shrines in Mecca, Medina, Najaf and Karbala.

Tippu Sultan sent a return journey to China, which returned after twelve years.

Tipu Tippu Sultan appointed judges from both communities for Hindu and Muslim subjects.

Tippu Sultan passed a decree for all women to cover their breasts, which was not practised in Kerala in the previous era.

Tipu Tippu Sultan's treasurer was Krishna Rao, Shamaiya Iyengar was his Minister of Post and Police, his brother Ranga Iyengar was an officer, and Purnaiya held the very important post of "Mir Asaf".

Between 1782 and 1799 Tipu Tippu Sultan issued 34 "Sanads" of endowment to temples in his domain, while presenting many of them with gifts of silver and gold plate.

Tippu Sultan gave a greenish linga; to Ranganatha temple at Srirangapatna, he donated seven silver cups and a silver camphor burner.

Tipu Tippu Sultan expressed his indignation and grief at the news of the raid:.

Tippu Sultan immediately ordered the Asaf of Bednur to supply the Swami with 200 rahatis in cash and other gifts and articles.

Tipu Tippu Sultan presented four silver cups to the Lakshmikanta Temple at Kalale.

Tipu Tippu Sultan does seem to have repossessed unauthorised grants of land made to Brahmins and temples, but those which had proper sanads were not.

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Coinage of Tipu Tippu Sultan is one of most complex and fascinating series struck in India during the 18th century.

Tipu Tippu Sultan introduced a set of new Persian names for the various denominations, which appear on all of the gold and silver coins and on some of the copper.

At the beginning of his first year, Tipu Tippu Sultan abandoned the Hijri dating system and introduced the Mauludi system, based on the solar year and the birth year of Muhammad .

Tippu Sultan was a pioneer in the development and use of Mysore rockets in warfare.

Tipu Tippu Sultan had lost his sword in a war with the Nairs of Travancore during the Battle of the Nedumkotta, in which he was forced to withdraw due to the severe joint attack from the Travancore army and British army.

Tippu Sultan reached for the dagger, picked it up, and killed the tiger with it.

Tippu Sultan even had French engineers build a mechanical tiger for his palace.

In October 2013, another sword owned by Tipu Tippu Sultan and decorated with his babri surfaced and was auctioned by Sotheby's.

Tippu Sultan [Tipu] was a king of Mysore and fought against the British [as] a freedom fighter.

One of them, Sindh Sahiba, was quite renowned for her beauty and intelligence and whose grandson was Sahib Sindh Tippu Sultan known as His Highness Shahzada Sayyid walShareef Ahmed Halim-az-Zaman Khan Tippu Sultan Sahib.

Tippu Sultan used many Western craftsmen, and this gun reflects the most up-to-date technologies of the time.