tipu

Tipu Sultan was a cruel ruler, and got soundly defeated by a superior, well supplied force despite Tipu having access to rockets.

A lot of traditional settlements moved away after the attack by Tipu and his establishment of Feroke.

There's an interesting episode about Tipu Sultan on the podcast 'Stuff the British Stole' by Marc Fenell ('that movie...

The link you supplied makes no mention of Tipu Sultan being a cruel ruler.

Lol the first rockets were built in China and were pioneered by Tipu Sultan in India, guess not all knowledge is college taught.

It was, in short, time to take out Tipu Sultan of Mysore.

For example, whether discovering new physics would permit the construction of new, more powerful weapons is debatable; it didn't help Archimedes or Tipu Sultan.

Another fun fact is that the Tipu Sultan of the Kingdom of Mysore also ruled Bangalore, now considered the Silicon of Valley of India.

I'm still waiting for your credible massacres and genocides references especially performed by Tipu Sultan.

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.

>>All that my middle-school textbooks said was Tipu Sultan used them against the Brits.

Mongols were ancestors of Mughals and it's plausible that they brought with them rocketry tech to India as there have evidences that rocketry was prevalent in Mughal empire even before Tipu Sultan's time.

Claims about Tipu Sultan's "cruelty" come primarily from English "scholars" who were actually fighting against him.

Perhaps because it was too common among the islamic rulers that it is often not considered unique enough to Tipu.

Tipu is respected by a lot of people, but the genocide of Coorgis who opposed him is well known history.

Tipu like many before him was the beneficiary of a long going positive social inertia.