A STUDY ON TIPU SULTAN AND ANGLO- MYSORE WAR

Even as TipuSultan"s legacy weathers a political hailstorm in Karnataka it cannot be denied he was a farsighted ruler. If he had been a religious zealot he would not have introduced a missile technology, banned liquor drinking and be a good environmentalist. For the last three years the birthday of Tipu Sultan is celebrated as a government function. There is opposition from the Hindutva groups. The facts given by the RSS groups now take the British that Tipu Sultan was a persecutor of the Hindus as fact. The legacy of Tipu cannot be kept within the region of Mysore. It must be revered and given due importance in the near future for the Tiger of Mysore and the missile man who was the first to lay down his life fighting against the British