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TIPÚ SULTÁN
CHAPTER I
Tipú's Accession to the Throne
Tipú Sultán, on the death of his father, now assumed the sovereignty of Mysore. Born in 1753 at Devanhalli, the place where Haidar first distinguished himself, he was named after a Musalmán devotee at Arcot, for whom Haidar had a special veneration. His mother, Fakhr-un-Nissa, was a daughter of Mír Moín-ud-dín, for some years Governor of Kadapa. When the time of her delivery was nigh, it is said that she paid a visit to the shrine of the holy man, to obtain a blessing, and gave her child the name which he afterwards bore [1]
- ↑ There has been much discussion both as to the etymology and the meaning of the word Tipú. In the inscription on his tomb the name is written Típú, and it is often so pronounced in Mysore, but on his seal it is unmistakably Tipú, which mode of spelling the name has been adopted in this sketch . As regards the meaning of the word, although it has been asserted that Tipú is the Kanarese for a tiger, this is certainly erroneous. Independently of the improbability of a holy man, such as Tipú Mastán Áuliah, after whom Tipú was named, being called by the designation of a
