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Dr. Jennifer Howes: The Story Tellers of Mysore: Tipu Sultan’s female entourage and the 1806 Vellore Mutiny
After the Fourth Mysore War, when the British were dismantling Tipu Sultan’s establishment, the East India Company unexpectedly took charge of 601 women who resided permanently inside Srirangapatnam Palace. Along with Tipu’s…
20 September 2021Happy Anniversary Royal Asiatic Society
Last night (Thursday 14th) we welcomed Dr. Yossef Rapoport from Queen Mary, University of London to lecture on the “Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo”, a lecture…
15 March 2019Cataloguing Progress
Since the beginning of 2019 sixteen archival catalogues have been added to Archives Hub. These have been a mixture of larger and smaller catalogues, and of institutional and personal papers, and for…
8 March 2019Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library) – Tipu Sultan’s Library: Building a Collection
Tipu Sultan of Mysore is one of the most colourful characters in the history of South Asia. On the one hand he is often castigated as a fanatic Muslim and brutal ruler,…
17 September 2018
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