Mysore After Tipu

● Wellesley offered Soonda and Harponelly districts of Mysore Kingdom to the Marathas, which the latter refused.

● The Nizam was given the districts of Gooty and Gurramkonda.

● The English took possession of Kanara, Wynad, Coimbatore, Dwaraporam and Seringapatam.

● The new state of Mysore was handed over to the old Hindu dynasty (Wodeyars) under a minor ruler Krishnaraja III, who accepted the subsidiary alliance.

● In 1831 William Bentinck took control of Mysore on grounds of misgovernance.

● In 1881 Lord Ripon restored the kingdom to its ruler.

Views

Tipu has been regarded by some writers as the first Indian nationalist and a martyr for India’s freedom. But this is a wrong view arrived at by projecting the present into the past. In the age in which Tipu lived and ruled there was no sense of nationalism or an awareness among Indians that they were a subject people. It will, therefore, be too much to say that Tipu waged war against the English for the sake of India’s freedom. Actually he fought in order to preserve his own power and independence...

—Mohibbul Hasan, History of Tipu Sultan

When a person travelling through a strange country finds it well cultivated, populous with industrious inhabitants, cities newly founded, commerce extending, towns increasing and everything flourishing so as to indicate happiness he will naturally conclude it to be under a form of government congenial to the minds of the people. This is a picture of Tippoo’s country.

—Lieutenant Moore