True History Exploration

  TRUTH ABOUT TIPU SULTAN  (by Ved Pal, IRSE, FIE, FIPWE, former Chief Administrative Officer, Ministry of Rlys, Govt of India) Introduction:  Tipu is eulogised as a great patriot and hailed by some as ‘Shere Mysore’. Official Leftist historians have been painting Tipu Sultan as a great Indian King, saviour of India and a freedom fighter. Some Political parties are vouching for that. But was he a patriot? How he became Sultan of Mysore? Which dynasty he belonged to? The so called historians remain silent. Let us try to understand the facts and truth.  Background of Tipu:  Tipu’s father Hyder Ali was an illiterate Sepoy in Nizam’s Army (Nizam of Hyderabad at that time was Asaf Jah II, Mir Nizam Ali Khan). By 1755 Hyder became a Fauzdar of 3000 strong infantry. In 1757 he was sent to assist reorganisation of Mysore Army where impressed by his organisational skills Krishnaraja Wodiyar II, the king of Mysore, gave him title of Fath Hyder Bahadur and made him Command...

 WODIYAR DYNASTY OF MYSORE (by Ved Pal, IRSE, Former Chief Administrative Officer, Ministry of Rlys (Govt of India) As Maharajas of Mysore, the Wodiyars (changed to Wadiyars in 1880s) ruled the Kingdom of Mysore from the late 1300s until 1950. The Wadiyar dynasty started when Yaduraya, a garrison leader (poleygar), was made the prefect of Mysore and the surrounding regions by his overlord Harihara II of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1399. Yaduraya assumed the title Raja and the honorary surname Wodiyar. He and his successors ruled the Mysore state as rajas under the Vijayanagara Empire until around 1553. The Vijayanagara Empire disintegrated in 1565. With the fall of the empire, Mysore became an independent kingdom and Wodiyars expanded the state further.  The kingdom reached its peak under Devaraja Wodeyar II (reign from 1673 to 1704) who reformed the administration of the kingdom by dividing it into 18 departments (called chavadis) and also introduced a coherent system of taxat...