BENGALURU: Sunil Baboo is perhaps not a name that would ring in many nods in a room. His work being in a field – collecting ...
Historian Vikram Sampath, with his latest book on the ‘Tiger of Mysore’ attempts to decode the Tipu Sultan riddle. A peep into the portrayal of Tipu Sultan by British artists two centuries ago ...
In 1780, during the Second Mysore War, the British were defeated at the Battle of Pollilur. Tipu had the battle painted on the walls of his Summer Palace to celebrate his triumph. David Baird was ...
The fourth, and final, Mysore War took place in 1799. British spies had reported that Napoleon was equipping a huge fleet to sail to India. Wellesley knew that this would threaten the British ...
Getty Images British power grew quickly after Tipu Sultan's death in the Anglo-Mysore War in 1799 But none memorialised it in a portrait. The credit for that politicking, according to Dr ...
Mysore's comment came amid a barrage of criticism targeted at the franchise, including one from former Australia cricketer Tom Moddy, who called it “shocking.” The bidding war for Venkatesh ...