TIPU SULTAN:MOST FORMIDABLE ENEMY OF EAST INDIA COMPANY

[Wajahat farooqui]

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Down Memory Lane.......From Archives 

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Allama Iqbal RA poetic tribute to great martyr Tipu Sultan: worth watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkm8fwpxlZ0&feature=share 

Well said he was the frist ruler in south who opposed East India company along with this Father Haider Ali when the airport of Banglore was opened the Govt did not even think of giving the name under him as the present airport is in Devanhalli from where Tipu is born. Such a great king and this how the Govt of Karnataka is respecting. ???

, wajahat farooqui <drwajf...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Friends,ASAK
 
 Tipu Sultan ruler of Mysore was eventful in many respects its main significance lies in his strong opposition to the British in India the English had never till then been confronted with a more formidable enemy than Tipu , who fought with fierceness of a Tiger and the tenacity of a Bulldog . Tipu's lives' passion was to drive away the British from the country for which purpose he used all his means ,capacity and all his power not sparing even his own life , He use to say "THAT TO LIVE lIKE A LION FOR ONE DAY WAS FAR BETTER THAN TO REMAIN A FOX FOR 100 YEARS" He never compromised his ideals,never deviated from his goal and never submitted himself to the paramounticy of a Foriegn power the disunity among indians and superior diplomacy along with millitary skill of the British made him realise that our freedom was in great danger . Another important feature of his riegn was dynamism of the character and burning zeal with which he wanted to promote the well bieng of his people. Mr Tipu was better known than his father for courage despite his neumerous wars and hectic political activities,he never ignored his main task , the promotion  and upliftment of well bieng of his people through TRADE,COMMERCE,INDUSRTY and AGRICULTURE
 
Mr Tipu developed modern techniques to manufacture guns,muskets and building of naval ships . His novel system of delivering justice , reforms of coinage and calendar etc made mysore  a prosperous and progressive state in India during the 18th  century.
It took the British Two Mysore wars and many years struggle to defeat Tipu,the his is evident the English never felt secure as long as he was alive.
 Dr.Wajahat Farooqui 
00966504638132
 

 Allama Iqbal RA poetic tribute to great martyr Tipu Sultan: worth watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkm8fwpxlZ0&feature=share

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If Tipu Sultan could get success the Shape of india would have been entirely different.

India might have been a better state of Uncorrupt and the real secular state that Mahatma Gandhi dreamed.

But Nizams and Marathas did support the Britisher only to achieve their self interests, nothing else. That is how God Almighty awarded Nizam, The Police Action. A good lesson taught, and for us to be learned, to two state of Muslims, Hydrabad & Kashmir

 

Nafis Tarin

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Dear Sir Asak

It is not the only cause of the defeat that Marathas and Nizam supported the British,but actually the defection of his most trusted Mir Sadique and Poornia the then Finance Minister of him.History it witness the Tipu Sultan's last speech watching the up in the sky,to his solders,to resist for just one day,as monsoon will start tonight,and if river next to fort will flow in full,the enemy will force to starve to death on the other side of the river,and asked the regiment on river side to be care full,then what Poornia did,he send the refreshed regiment to take charge the earlier one and asked them to collect the salary,and since is was the order of most trusted personality the then finance minister,the trusted regiment was replaced by the back bitter,who the allowed the British army un opposed enter the ford.It is there on the pages of history book,that night it started the monsoon,non stop for through out the night as well as the next day as the sky was weeping on the demise of the the Tipu Shaheed.You can read Naseem Hijazis Novel Our talwar toot gayee and Tipu Sultan our uski talwar bu Moulavi Ilyas Nadvi from Bhatkal.

Mohammed Farooque Shahbandri Patel

966504960485 

 Tariq Farooqui <tfaro...@hotmail.com> wrote:

I am also touched by your comments. Very civilized west is proudly displaying the Trophies of their eveil past and continue to do same even today. It is said the body of Tipu Sultan was  lying in the fort  of Srirangapattam with face down and sword still in his hand.  British soldiers assuming him dead tried to lift the face, but Tipu was still alive,  turned up and gave a powerful blow od sword to nearest britsh soldier, killed him  and collapsed again, never to rise again.   Even in his last last moments soldier in Tipu kept on fighting.   He was the only Indian ruler who defeated British Army but unfortuately Marathas and Nizams sided with British and helped defeat the great warrior.

 

 

Tariq Umar Farooqui

 

 

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Back in the 1960s and 70s I lived and worked in London. During that stay I made a visit to Belfast in Northern Ireland and to Edinburgh in Scotland. I stayed for a few days in Edinburgh. It was the month of August when they have the Annual Edinburgh Festival. One of the things I went to see was the Edinburgh Castle. There are some proud exhibits in the Castle for the visitors to see. One of those exhibits was the blood soaked shirt of Tipu Sultan in which he was killed by the invading British Armies. The fighting force that had finally entered the place where Tipu Sultan had spent the last moments of his life was the Scottish Regiment. That is how they ended up carrying his personal belongings. The blood on the shirt was all dried up it was still red. I stood there and looked at that blood soaked shirt for a long time and tried to imagine what could have been the scene at that moment when Tipu Sultan was killed. My eyes were filled with tears. After all these years, suddenly a friend has send me this beautiful article written by a British journalist/author – this is a different kind of  Brit who wrote this.   Thank you.   Sincerely,   Syed-Mohsin Naquvi ===========================     An essay in imperial villain-making A fanatical Muslim despot was resisting the west, there were calls for regime change. We have, of course, been here before ·           William Dalrymple The Guardian,  BST Article history By the end of the 90s, the hardliners calling for regime change in the east found that they had a powerful ally in government. This new president was not prepared to wait to be attacked: he was a new sort of conservative, aggressive in foreign policy, bitterly anti-French, and intent on turning his country into the unrivalled global power. It was best, he believed, simply to remove any hostile Muslim regime that presumed to resist the west. There was no doubt who would be the first to be targeted: a Muslim dictator whose family had usurped power in a military coup. According to British sources, this chief of state was an "intolerant bigot", a "furious fanatic" with a "rooted and inveterate hatred of Europeans", who had "perpetually on his tongue the projects of jihad". He was also deemed to be "oppressive and unjust ... [a] sanguinary tyrant, [and a] perfidious negotiator". It was, in short, time to take out Tipu Sultan of Mysore. The president of the board of control, Henry Dundas, the minister who oversaw the East India Company, had just the man for the job. Richard Wellesley was sent out to India in 1798 as governor general with specific instructions to effect regime change in Mysore and replace Tipu with a western-backed puppet. First, however, Wellesley and Dundas had to justify to the British public a policy whose outcome had long been decided in private. Wellesley therefore began a campaign of vilification against Tipu, portraying him as an aggressive Muslim monster who divided his time between oppressing his subjects and planning to drive the British into the sea. This essay in imperial villain-making opened the way for a lucrative conquest and the installation of a more pliable regime that would, in the words of Wellesley, allow the British to give the impression they were handing the country back to its rightful owners while in reality maintaining firm control. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a politician in search of a war is not over-scrupulous with matters of fact. Until recently, the British propaganda offensive against Tipu has determined the way that we - and many Indians - remember him. But, as with more recent dossiers produced to justify pre-emptive military action against mineral-rich Muslim states, the evidence reveals far more about the desires of the attacker than it does about the reality of the attacked. Recent work by scholars has succeeded in reconstructing a very different Tipu to the one-dimensional fanatic invented by Wellesley. Tipu, it is now clear, was one of the most innovative and far-sighted rulers of the pre-colonial period. He tried to warn other Indian rulers of the dangers of an increasingly arrogant and aggressive west. "Know you not the custom of the English?" he wrote in vain to the nizam of Hyderabad in 1796. "Wherever they fix their talons they contrive little by little to work themselves into the whole management of affairs." What really worried the British was less that Tipu was a Muslim fanatic, something strange and alien, but that he was frighteningly familiar: a modernising technocrat who used the weapons of the west against their inventors. Indeed, in many ways, he beat them at their own game: the Mysore sepoy's flintlocks - as the examples for sale in an auction of Tipu memorabilia at Sotheby's tomorrow demonstrate - were based on the latest French designs, and were much superior to the company's old matchlocks. Tipu also tried to import industrial technology through French engineers, and experimented with harnessing water-power to drive his machinery. He sent envoys to southern China to bring back silkworm eggs and established sericulture in Mysore - an innovation that still enriches the region today. More remarkably, he created what amounted to a state trading company with its own ships and factories dotted across the Gulf. British propaganda might portray Tipu as a savage barbarian, but he was something of a connoisseur, with a library of about 2,000 volumes in several languages. Moreover, contrary to the propaganda of the British, Tipu - far from being some sort of fundamentalist - continued the Indo-Islamic tradition of syncretism. He certainly destroyed temples in Hindu states that he conquered in war, but temples lying within his domains were viewed as protected state property and generously supported with lands and gifts of money and even padshah lingams - a unique case of a Muslim sultan facilitating the Shaivite phallus veneration. When the great Sringeri temple was destroyed by a Maratha raiding party, Tipu sent funds for its rebuilding. "People who have sinned against such a holy place," wrote a solicitous Tipu, "are sure soon to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds." Tipu knew what he was risking when he took on the British, but he said, "I would rather live a day as a tiger than a lifetime as a sheep." As the objects in tomorrow's sale show, the culture of innovation Tipu fostered in Mysore stands record to a man very different from that imagined by the Islamophobic propaganda of the British - and the startling inaccuracy of Wellesley's "dodgy dossier" of 1799. The fanatical bigot and savage was in fact an intellectual. The whole episode is a sobering reminder of the degree to which old-style imperialism has made a comeback under Bush and Blair. There is nothing new about the neocons. Not only are westerners again playing their old game of installing puppet regimes, propped up by western garrisons, for their own political and economic ends but, more alarmingly, the intellectual attitudes that buttressed and sustained such imperial adventures remain intact. Despite over 25 years of assault by Edward Said and his followers, old-style Orientalism is alive and kicking, its prejudices intact, with columnists such as Mark Steyn and Andrew Sullivan in the role of the new Mills and Macaulays. Through their pens - blissfully unencumbered by any knowledge of the Muslim world - the old colonial idea of the Islamic ruler as the decadent, destructive, degenerate Oriental despot lives on and, as before, it is effortlessly projected on a credulous public by western warmongers in order to justify their own imperial projects. Dundas and Wellesley were certainly more intelligent and articulate than Bush or Rumsfeld, but they were no less cynical in their aims, nor less ruthless in the means they employed to effect them.   · William Dalrymple is the author of White Mughals   FROM: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/may/24/foreignpolicy.india

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