Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Amal Chatterjee

Published:

1998

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Two of the most enduring characters in the Anglo-Indian pantheon of villains were the late eighteenth-century rulers of Mysore, Hyder Ali and his son, the infamous Tipu Sultan. Their reputations, in particular that of Tipu, were almost as important in the creation of the India in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British imagination as the actual fact of their defeat. No other subcontinental ruler enjoyed the terrifying reputation that Tipu did. He was at once the bogeyman, the proof that Indian rulers were duplicitous tyrants and proof that, no matter what Orientalists and others said of the past, any powerful Indian ruler was ultimately an evil despot.KeywordsIndian SocietyEnduring CharacterHindoo TempleFemale ElephantIndian RulerThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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