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Tipu Sultan, from the sources.

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  • From his early years under Hyder Ali to the walls of Seringapatam
  • Drawn from contemporary accounts, Persian chronicles and East India Company records
  • Tipu's coinage, his ambassadors and his rockets, photographed for the book
  • By the author of Muslim Freedom Fighters of India, which has sold over 60,000 copies

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About the book

  • Pages340
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Chapters16
  • Photographs40 pages

“One day as a tiger is better than a lifetime as a jackal.” Few Indians have been admired, argued over and misunderstood as much as Tipu Sultan.

Tipu Sher-e-Mysore draws on contemporary accounts, Persian chronicles, East India Company records and modern scholarship. It follows him from his early years under Hyder Ali to the walls of Seringapatam, where he chose to fight to his last breath rather than surrender.

It is also the story of eighteenth-century India: his reforms, his iron-cased rockets, his trade networks and his embassies across Asia and the Middle East, and the wars that decided India’s future. It covers the sack of Seringapatam, what became of Tipu’s wealth, and how his rockets travelled to Europe.

The book dates every event and goes back to the sources, and lets the evidence speak, without asking you to accept or reject the myths.

Every chapter in the book

All 16 chapters of Tipu Sher-e-Mysore, from his birth under a fading empire to his last stand at Seringapatam.

16 chapters

  • Birth of Fateh Ali Under a Fading Empire
  • Hyder Ali and the Making of a Military State
  • The Education of a Warrior Prince
  • First Blood with the English Company
  • The Sultan AscendsSovereignty After War (1784 to 1789)
  • Storm on the HorizonThe Road to the Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789)
  • The Third Anglo-Mysore War Begins (1790 to 1791)
  • The Siege of Bangalore (1791)
  • The March on Seringapatam (1791 to 1792)
  • Rebuilding the Tiger State (1792 to 1796)
  • The Road to the Final War (1796 to 1799)
  • The Invasion of Mysore (1799)
  • The Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
  • The Tiger Rises in Death
  • The Fall of Mysore and the Plunder of Seringapatam
  • The Legacy of the Tiger of Mysore

Open the book

Pages and documents printed beside the text, so you see the evidence as well as read it.

  • Tipu's own coinage, photographed for the book.
    Tipu's own coinage, photographed for the book.
  • Richard Wellesley, the man who decided Tipu should not be left alive.
    Richard Wellesley, the man who decided Tipu should not be left alive.
  • Mohammad Dervish Khan, Tipu's ambassador to France.
    Mohammad Dervish Khan, Tipu's ambassador to France.
  • A Russian soldier lighting a Congreve rocket, a design copied from Tipu's rockets.
    A Russian soldier lighting a Congreve rocket, a design copied from Tipu's rockets.

What readers say

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    Salim Khan

    Salim Khan

    Researcher and educator. He works from the sources and writes in plain English, for readers who were never taught this history at school.

    Salim Khan started out as an Arabic calligrapher and a student of the Arabic language. His early years went into researching Islamic history, and that research led him to the history of India: the Mughals, and the part Muslims played in the freedom struggle. That is what made him start writing about their contribution to the making of this country.

    Salim Khan has spent more than ten years researching Islamic and Indian history. His first book, The Golden Age of Islam, became a bestseller, and each book since has started from the sources: contemporary accounts, Persian chronicles, East India Company records, newspapers and court papers.

    His research on Palestine, The Land Called Palestine, found readers in the US and Europe. Muslim Freedom Fighters of India took his team 16 months of research, and The Wire reviewed it.

    He writes in plain English on purpose, so that a whole family can read the same book and pass it on.

    Copies sold
    80,000+
    Researching history
    10+ years
    Research for Muslim Freedom Fighters
    16 months

    Reviewed in The Wire

    “Why we need a book about Muslims who fought for India’s freedom”

    Varsha Tiwary, on Muslim Freedom Fighters of India

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