Tipu sultan history of India

 4th May 1799 was the day when the lion of Mysore Tipu Sultan sacrificed his life while protecting his country. If Tipu Sultan had wanted, he could have saved his kingdom by signing a treaty with the British like Nizam and other princely states and accepting all their conditions and slavery, but he preferred martyrdom over this slavery.


At that time, the name of Tipu Sultan was a message of fear for the British. Perhaps no other Sultan or King of India would have instilled such fear in the hearts of the British. Tipu Sultan had given the British sleepless nights at a time when most of the Nawabs and Kings of India were rubbing their noses at the doorstep of the British to save their rule and existence.


 The day Sultan Tipu was martyred, a celebration was held in Britain in which famous writers and artists of London participated. The British were so afraid of Sultan Tipu that they could not even muster the courage to go near his dead body. When a bullet hit his right chest, he fell on the ground. When someone convinced the British that Tipu was dead, a soldier tried to take out the gem embedded in his sheath, then Tipu Sultan injured his hand with his sword in his last moments. Similarly, when a soldier tried to kill him with his sword, then Tipu Sultan, standing on the brink of death, hit the soldier on his head with his sword with such a force that the soldier died there.

When Tipu Sultan was martyred, the Governor General had said that from today onwards the whole of India is ours. The joy of Tipu Sultan's death for the British can be gauged from the fact that the opening scene of Vicky Collins' famous novel The Moonstone shows the looting and siege of Tipu Sultan's Dar-ul-Sultanate Srirangapatna. Hardly any ruler would have dared to take on the British in this way.


In the last moments of the battle, Tipu's bodyguard Raja Khan had told him that if he reveals his identity to the British, they will have mercy on him. The words spoken by that Mujahid at that time have become immortal in history. He told them that one day of a lion's life is better than a hundred years of a jackal's life.


When Tipu Sultan's funeral procession passed through the streets of Srirangapatna, people lined up on both sides of the road, everyone's eyes became moist and women broke their bangles. People were lying on the ground mourning the death of their Sultan.


Today the history of Tipu Sultan is being removed from school curriculum. Perhaps those who want to remove it do not know that history is written on an iron tablet which can never be erased.

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