<strong>TIPU SULTAN</strong>
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Why in News:
Recently Play on Tipu staged amid heavy police security took Place in Mysuru
Content:
● He was a well educated man fluent in Arabic, Persian, Kanarese and Urdu.
● Tipu introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including his coinage, a new Mauludi lunisolar calendar, and a new land revenue system which initiated the growth of Mysore silk industry.
● He was also a patron of science and technology and is credited as the ‘pioneer of rocket technology’ in India.
● He wrote a military manual (Fathul Mujahidin) explaining the operation of rockets.
● Tipu was a great lover of democracy and a great diplomat who gave his support to the French soldiers at Seringapatam in setting up a Jacobin Club in 1797.
● Tipu himself became a member of the Jacobin Club and allowed himself to be called Citizen Tipu.
● He planted the Tree of Liberty at Seringapatam.
