More significant than Tipu's patriotic zeal was his creative vision which aimed at
bringing about a social change in the condition of the people, in the improvement of the
economic life of the masses, and in the enhancement of the prestige and prosperity of his
state. His reforming zeal touched almost every department of life,
including coinage and calendar, weights and measures, banking and finance, trade and
commerce, agriculture and industry, morals and manners and social and cultural life.
Had he not engrossed in his exasperating wars, he would surely have ushered his State into
a revolutionary stage. He built up an efficient system of
administration and was almost the first Indian ruler to apply western techniques in the
heart of government. His innovative measures and dynamic policies
made Mysore gain almost international importance in his times. All this would never have
been possible had he not been progressive and secular in his character. |
