Commissioned in the late 18th century by the much exalted king of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, the two-floor Indo-Islamic palace made entirely out of teak, is a testament to Bengaluru's storied past.The ...

I have a friend who, as it turns out, is a mystic. She named her cat Tipu Sultan. It was only upon visiting Srirangapatna a few months ago, about half-an-hour away from Mysore, that I realised that ...

The valiant tales of ‘Mysore Tiger’ Tipu Sultan’s tryst with rockets at a time technology was in its nascent stage in India are part of Indian history ...

MYSORE: The nucleus of Mysore Dasara, the palace turns 100 this year. An architectural wonder, the palace was built at a cost of Rs. 41,47,970 over 15 years. Th ...

Many of the paintings related to the siege and the four Anglo-Mysore wars, fought between the East India Company and Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan from 1767-99, are now housed in institutions ...

It depicts the mausoleum of Tipu Sultan (1751-1799), the son and successor of Hyder Ali, a former Wodeyar commander who declared himself ruler, also turning the Wodeyars into nominal kings for a time.

Experts are unanimous in their view that none of these monuments or the historical contribution they point to can be studied in isolation or described without reference to Tipu Sultan, which the ...