Tipu Sultan was a A brave warrior and ruler of Mysore, Commonly know Tiger of Mysore. He was the most powerful of all the native princes of India and the greatest threat to the English position in southern India.
Tipu was born at Devanhalli, the son of Haidar Ali. Himself illiterate, Haidar was very particular in giving his eldest son a prince's education and a very early exposure to military and political affairs. From the age of 17 Tipu was given independent charge of important diplomatic and military missions. He was his father's right arm in the wars from which Haidar emerged as the most powerful ruler of southern India.
But People in Malabar, Mangalore and Coorg loved to hate him to such an extent that they joined hands with the British for his doom. This helped the British in winning the fourth Anglo Mysore War. He lost his sons in the third war and his own life in the fourth one.
A brave warrior, breathed his last on 4 May 1799 (aged 48) Srirangapatna, present-day Mandya, Karnataka while fighting the British forces in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. Tipu himself fought bravely, dressed in his finest, loading and firing muskets handed him by his servants as if he was at a sporting shoot, but the odds were too great. He was wounded and his staff tried to hurry him away in a palanquin, but he was killed for his jewellery by an unidentified British soldier.
The British Army's National Army Museum ranked Tipu Sultan among the greatest enemy commanders the British Army ever faced.
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, called Tipu Sultan the innovator of the world's first war rocket.
Department of Posts honoured him by releasing a commemorative postage stamp on tiger of Mysore
Issued Date : 15.07.1974
Denomination :50 Paise
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