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Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India

A visual primary source showing how Mysore resisted British imperialism in southern India in the second half of the eighteenth century

Bram Hubbell
Bram Hubbell
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Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India

The Source

As Europeans expanded and conquered in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they frequently met lots of resistance. One of the best examples to highlight this pattern was in southern India.


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