The Seringapatam Times

For over 150 years five Mughal emperors had ruled much of northern India with relative success. Following the death of Aurangzeb in 1707, the empire entered a period of such instability, that 10 ...

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/the-stolen-treasures-of-tipu-sultan/

Details of a 3 folio note on Diwan Purnaiah from among the Mackenzie papers' in the British library Continue reading →

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/some-new-information-upon-the-origin-of-diwan-purnaiah-from-a-manuscript-in-the-mackenzie-collection/

The discovery of the design of the Mohr (Seal) of Tipu Sultan’s factory at Muscat in the course of our study of Mysore’s seals is an important milestone in confirming the importance of Muscat...

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/tipu-sultans-factory-at-muscat-mysorean-trade-relations-with-oman-in-the-late-18th-c/

All these aspects then—the attitude towards the palegars, the cessation of issuing jaghirs, the assumption of religious endowments lands in excess, the modification of hereditary tenures of the...

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2022/01/08/under-a-benevolent-sarkar-the-mysorean-farmer-during-the-rule-of-tipu-sultan-1782-1799/

Mysore was the first state in the world to have moved to the next stage of rocket development from wooden firework rockets to metal war rockets successfully. Continue reading →

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/the-mysore-rocket/

This article based upon manuscripts in the British Library collection and research into Tipu Sultan's Mauludi calendar provides us with a new date of birth for Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore (r. 17...

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/a-re-examination-of-tipu-sultans-date-of-birth-as-per-the-date-specified-by-himself-and-presenting-an-online-mysorean-mauludi-calendar/

Did you know that the Turkish Caliph actually beseeched Tipu Sultan to ally with the Turks against France!! Vive La Liberte! Viva La Egalite! Vive La Fraternite ! – Thus spake Tipu Sultan when ...

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2020/10/30/between-liberty-and-faith-when-tipu-sultan-chose-france-over-turkey/

Rajputs in Tipu’s army? How? Continue reading →

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2020/07/26/tipu-sultan-and-the-rajputs/

“Tipu Sultan was a traitor to the Kannada language. Kannada which was the administrative language of the Mysore state under the Wodeyars was replaced by Farsi by Tipu Sultan. He was an opponent...

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/of-tongues-and-kings-tipu-sultan-and-kannada/

I have over the past few years been intermittently working upon over a century of correspondence deposited at the West Bengal state archives in Kolkata between Tipu Sultan’s sons’ and extende...

https://toshkhana.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/the-pining-princess-the-tragedy-of-shahzadi-noorunissa/