TIPU SULTAN:
Tipu Sultan :(20 November 1750 – 4 May
1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore and Tippoo Sahib was a
ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a scholar, soldier and
poet. Tipu was the eldest son of Sultan Hyder Ali
of Mysore and his wife Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa. Tipu introduced a number of
administrative innovations during his rule, including the introduction of a new
coinage, a new Mauludi lunisolar calendar, and a new land revenue
system, initiating the growth of Mysore silk
industry. Tipu expanded the iron-cased Mysorean
rockets which he deployed in his resistance against military
advances of the British.
