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Tipu Sultan - The Tiger of Mysore
The Tipu Sultan, during the later part of the eighteenth century, strongly opposed the British rule in southern India and was a serious military threat to the East India Company for forty years, before he was finally defeated in battle by Cornwallis. To this day he is highly respected and considered to have been a just ruler.
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Tipu Sultan, nicknamed
the 'Tiger of Mysore', was a legend during
his own lifetime. Even from childhood the
Tipu joined his father, Hyder Ali, in a number
of military engagements. Tipu took over as
ruler of Mysore after the death of his father
in about 1782.