IIK Independence Day

A Brave Indian Freedom Fighter Tipu Sultan

-- Fatima Husain Mapkar, V-C, Kuwait Indian School

Monday, July 17, 2023


Tipu Sultan was a brave Indian Freedom Fighter who ruled the kingdom of Mysore, which he inherited from his father Haidar Ali. His bravery valour and skills were so talked about that French commander-in-chief Napoleon Bonaparte once sought an alliance with the ruler of Mysore.

Sultan Fateh Ali Khan sahab also known as Tipu Sultan, was laid to rest on May 4, 1799. Remembered as te first freedom fighter from India. Tipu Sultan is known for his bravery and skills he had strongly resisted the conquest of British East India Company in Southern India and he wa reluctant to welcome them on his soil. His slogan to his soldiers is very clean and well known to the people. It is fa better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a Jackal for hundred years.

He expanded the iron-cased Myserean rockets and commissioned the military manual Fathul Mujahidin. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies during the anglo Mysore wars, including the Battle of Pollilur and siege of Sriranga-Patana. Portrait of the Tipu Sultan from Mysore.
In India we new him by his popular name SHAR-E-MYSORE.






Fatima Husain Mapkar, V-C, Kuwait Indian School





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