TIPU SULTAN An outstanding strategist and tactician of 18th Century India.

摘要

All the historical writing reveals that Tipu Sultan was undoubtedly the most innovative strategist and craftiest tactician of his time in eighteenth century India. Prof Mushirul Hasan (2003, p 54) rightly suggests that 'what is... required is a cool and dispassionate analysis of Tipu's actions in the context of the turbulent decades of the 18th century in South India and the Sub-Continent generally'. Mohammad Mustafa Khan (Khan, 1844, pp 258-9) writes that Tipu was a unique personality in India, resembling Nadir Shah of Persia and second only to Tamuchin of China (Chinggis Khan). He further opines that Mother-Earth will not be able to produce such a Rustam-like hero for another 200 years.