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 ...

Why asking for Tipu Sultan’s famous tiger, now in a British museum, to be returned to Pakistan is problematic I read a strange proposal the other day — that Tipu Sultan’s famous tiger ...

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 most well-known image associated with Tipu is that of the tiger. After he died, it became his epithet – “the Tiger of Mysore” the British called him. Tipu’s use of tiger imagery ...

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 ...

The battlelines are drawn in Karnataka over the Siddaramaiah government’s decision to celebrate November 10 as Tipu Jayanti. But what’s the truth about the ‘Tiger of Mysore’? Author 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 ...

A sword used by 18th century Mysore (now Mysuru) ruler Tipu Sultan has been auctioned chambered off for £14 million (Rs 140 crore). According to Bonham’s auction house in London, which ...

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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 ...