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Tipu Sultan
A Great Ruler
By
Prof. Sheik Ali
(Former Vice Chancellor of Goa &
Mangalore Universities)Significance Of Tipu's Life
Vision and mission in life
Political freedom from British
Alliance of the Indian powers
Technology, Commerce, Industry & Education |
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Industry in Karnataka and Foreign
tie ups
Embodiment of Hindu - Muslim unity
Membership with Jacobin Club
Tipu's contribution to rocket
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Technology, Commerce, Industry & Education
Despite the hectic political and military involvement, Tipu never ignored the main task of
improving the life and conditions of his people. His improvement of agriculture and
industry, his promotion of trade and commerce, his novel system of the administration of
justice, his building up of a navy, his opening of factories far and near, and his
despatch of embassies to different and distant lands, linked the small State of Mysore
with the bigger world. He built an exceedingly efficient system of administration, which
launched upon a series of innovative measures that would transform his State into a
humming center of great industrial activity. He exerted his utmost to secure artisans and
craftsmen from different countries to manufacture guns, muskets and a host of other
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His reforming zeal touched almost
every department of life including coinage and calendar, weights and measures, banking and
finance, revenue and judiciary, army and navy, morals and manners, and social ethos and
cultural affairs.
His creative vision envisaged the construction of
a dam across the river Cauvery, the details of which still exist in an inscription
installed at the gates of the present K.R.S. Dam. He was the one who developed the
technology of rocket systems, and thought of establishing a university, which he named
Dar-ul-Umur.
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Entrance gate to KRS
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