Thank you for having me. SHAPIRO: Will you describe the first time you saw the wooden tiger that is at the center of this novel? JAMES: Yes, I first encountered "Tipu's Tiger" in a book and ...

One of the most remarkable artefacts from that time is the wooden automaton known as Tipu’s Tiger, once described by Keats as a “Man-Tiger-Organ, prettiest of his toys”. The almost life ...

the famous Tipu’s Tiger, a mechanical automaton built by local craftsmen using local materials, possibly with inputs from French engineers. It featured a painted wooden tiger mauling a man who ...

The day I saw Tipu’s Tiger behind its glass case at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was a day of significance. That morning, after months of being cooped up in Oxford, some friends and ...

Tipu’s Tiger, a mechanical toy at Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Tipu’s tent at Powis Castle in Wales continue to pull visitors Tipu’s tiger mauls a luckless English soldier: Exhibit No. 1 ...

In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.' - Tipu Sultan, taken from Alexander Beatson's A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo ...

The one-metre-long sword, its ornate hilt inlaid with gold calligraphy, belonged to Tipu Sultan (1751-1799). Also known as the Tiger of Mysore, he was the Muslim ruler of a kingdom in southern ...