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 28 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
Illustration from the book:

Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan
Drawing taken on the spot by Mr.Home
By Robert Home
Published by Mr.Bowyer, London - 1794 Read More
 28 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
Illustration from the book:

Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan
Drawing taken on the spot by Mr.Home
By Robert Home
Published by Mr.Bowyer, London - 1794 Read More
 28 Nov 2020 Rare Paintings
Illustration from the book:

Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan
Drawing taken on the spot by Mr.Home
By Robert Home
Published by Mr.Bowyer, London - 1794 Read More
 28 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan
Drawing taken on the spot by Mr.Home
By Robert Home
Published by Mr.Bowyer, London - 1794

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Robert Home (1752–1834) was a Britis... Read More
 28 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Historical sketches of the south of India, in an attempt to trace the HISTORY OF MYSOOR, from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799
By Lieut. Col. Mark Wilks
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London ... Read More
 28 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Historical sketches of the south of India, in an attempt to trace the HISTORY OF MYSOOR, from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799
By Lieut. Col. Mark Wilks
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London ... Read More
 28 Nov 2020 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Historical sketches of the south of India, in an attempt to trace the HISTORY OF MYSOOR, from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799
By Lieut. Col. Mark Wilks
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London ... Read More
 29 Dec 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
Revolutionary heroes
By Blake Smith
aeon.co

If the sultan of Mysore had had a bit more luck, George Washington might be known as the Haider Ali of North America. As the ruler of Mysore, a kingdom in what is now southwestern India, Haider fought a series of wars with Great Britain in the l... Read More
 8 Aug 2016 Rare Paintings
South View of Bangalore - 1792

Ink wash drawing made of a south view of Bangalore with the fortress in the distance by Robert Home (1752-1834) in 1792. It is part of a series of 22 loose drawings together with a map and three plans completed by Home when he accompanied the British army under Cor... Read More
 8 Aug 2016 Rare Paintings
North view of Bangalore from the pettah, shewing the curtain and bastions that were breached - 1792

Etching with line-engraving of a north view of Bangalore from the Pettah by Burnet Reading after sketches Robert Home (1752-1834) had made when he had accompanied the troops in Lord Cornwallis's c... Read More
 8 Aug 2016 Rare Paintings
East View of Bangalore with the Cypress Garden (Lal Bagh) - 1792

Wash drawing showing Bangalore with the Cypress Garden by Robert Home (1752-1834) in 1792. This is one of a series of 22 loose drawings together with a map and three plans completed by Home when he accompanied the British army unde... Read More
 8 Aug 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan
Drawing taken on the spot by Mr.Home
By Robert Home
Published by Mr.Bowyer, London - 1794

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Plan of Bangalore (with the Attacks) taken by... Read More
 13 Nov 2015 Rare Paintings
Garden Gate, Laul Baugh, Seringapatam - 1804

Plate six in 'Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore' by James Hunter. This aquatint is based on a picture by Hunter depicting the entrance gate to the Lal Bagh Gardens at Srirangapatnam. Inside this garden is the tomb of Haidar Ali (c.1722-1782... Read More
 12 Nov 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
History of Tipu Sultan
By Mohibbul Hasan Khan
Published by The Bibliophile Ltd., Calcutta - 1951

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Image:
Plate two from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore', based on a picture by J... Read More
 12 Nov 2015 Article/Essay
Essay:
Tipu Sultan in History: Revisionism Revised
By Narasingha Sil
Published in SAGE Journal - 2 April 2013

This historiographical essay seeks to chart a middle course between what may be called Tipu bashing and, to borrow an expression from Anne Buddle, “Tipu Mania,” with a view to provi... Read More
 12 Nov 2015 Article/Essay
Essay:
The Goddess and a Sultan: Hindu Coinage of Tipu Sultan
Published in The Seringapatam Times

Tipu was also a master at propaganda. Along with attempting to help the Math recover, Tipu wished to emulate the example of Karnataka’s greatest ruler, Sri Krishnadevaraya who initiated the custom o... Read More
 10 Nov 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The History of Hydur Naik - Otherwise styled Shums ul Moolk, Ameer ud Dowla, Nawaub Hydur Ali Khan Bahadoor, Hydur Jung; Nawaub of the Karnatic Balaghaut.
Written by Meer Hussein Ali Khan Kirmani
Translated from an original Persian manuscript in the library of Her Most Graciou... Read More
 10 Nov 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Mysore Gazetteer (Volume 2)
By C. Hayavadana Rao
Printed in The Government Press, Bangalore - 1930

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The prize property seized at Seringapatam immediately after its fall was... Read More
 10 Nov 2015 Rare Paintings
View of Mercara Fort (Coorg) - 1840

Pen-and-ink and water-colour sketch of Madikeri by an unknown artist, c.1840. On the back is an unfinished portrait sketch. Inscribed on the front in ink is: 'Mercara Fort; The line of the Western Ghauts of India'; also notes on various buildings and hills.

M... Read More
 10 Nov 2015 Rare Manuscripts
Tipu Sultan's Qur'an

View of pages from the Qur'an of Tipu Sultan. Shows text in the centre, surrounded by gold and blue illumination. Tipu Sultan was the Muslim ruler of Southern India's Mysore province (now part of Karnataka) during the late eighteenth century. Opposed to the British East Indi... Read More