Tipu Sultan Story

 Tipu Sultan Story 

There was a sultan in India. The British felt that they could not occupy India as long as he was alive. But a British officer saw his body outside the fort of Mysore and said that now India is ours. This was the last major obstacle for the British in the subcontinent.

This is the India of 1760.SarangaPatam is a city in southern India, about 2200 km from Delhi. A strange activity is going on in a room built on a minaret of this city. A ten-year-old boy is diligently cutting window bars with the help of a sand. And sitting next to him, his five-year-old brother is watching him with fear in his eyes. The older boy cut the window bars, then tied a rope to the window and hung it down. He put his brother on his back and went down by the rope. Soon there was a commotion all over the tunnel Tipu and Karim, the two captive sons of rebel General Haider Ali, have escaped.

Yes, it was Fateh Ali Tipu, the little brave man who cut the bars. And now this little Sultan was hiding with his brother from the enemies. The reason was that Tipu's father Haider Ali, who was the commander-in-chief of the Raja of Mysore. He had been declared a rebel due to the conspiracies of his opponents. Now he had fled the city. Her sons were imprisoned But they also ran away. During this time the festival of Holi came. Haider Ali's sympathizers painted Tipu and his brother in the colors of Holi. Tipu also wore a lion mask on his face. Then the two brothers left the city without anyone noticing and went to meet their father.

Within a year of this highly filmy escape, Tipu's father Haider Ali had become the ruler of Mysore and Tipu the Crown Prince. But Haider Ali's 21-year rule passed in a battle with the enemies. And when Tipu ascended the throne after Haider Ali's death in 1782, the same problems passed to him. 

Messier's rule was a bed of thorns, not a bed of flowers. It was certain that Tipu, no matter how capable he might be, could have averted the destruction of his empire. What was the reason for this? This was due to the extremely difficult geography of the state of Mysore. The provinces that are now called the Indian states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala Many of them were in the state of Mysore. It looked like a big state. But the problem with it was that its three most dangerous enemies were sitting on its borders. 

In some eastern areas and in the south there was the East India Company, the British government. Whose military base in southern India was Madras which is now called Chennai. To the east of the British territory was Hyderabad Deccan, now part of Andhra Pradesh. To the north were the Marhats, whose empire stretched from the borders of Mysore to Delhi, and to the west was the sea.

In other words, Tipu could not get any help from either side and he could not back down. And there was another big problem with this dangerous geography. And that Mysore was one of the richest states in India. The production of spices and the textile industry were flourishing here. The income of the citizens of Mysore was five times higher than that of the rest of India.

So why didn't the resin of Mysore's opponents drip. The only purpose of the enemies on all three sides was to capture Mysore. Therefore, the question of peace or agreement did not arise from them. Thus, the state of Mysore was in a weak position in dangerous geography and difficult conditions. But Tipu was not one to give up. He was ready for both peace and war. He also made peace treaties with his enemies. But all these agreements failed and Tipu Sultan had to fight in the end. 

Many times in these wars he bit the teeth of his enemies so much that people started calling him Mysore Lion.