Sunday, March 29, 2015

Tipu sultan palace Bangalore

                     Tipu sultan palace or Tipu sultan’s Summer Palace was the summer residence of the Mysorean ruler tipu Sultan. it’s placed in Bangalore, India. Tipu sultan palace was constructing started by Hyder Ali in the walls of the Bangalore Fort and completed during the amount of Tipu sultan in the year 1791. when the death of tipu sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, the Tipu sultan palace was utilized by British Administration as Secretariat before moving to Attara Kacheri in 1868. Nowadays it’s a tourist spot placed at the middle of old city near Kalasipalyam Bus Stand and maintained by Government of Karnataka.
Tipu sultan palace Architectue:

                 The Tipu sultan palace structure has been built entirely with Teak Wood and stands adorned with pillars, arches and balconies. It’s an example of Indo-Islamic architecture. It’s believed that tipu sultan used to conduct his durbar (court) from the eastern and western balconies of the upper floor. There are lovely floral motifs embellishing the walls of the palace. The location also holds a painting of grand throne visualized by Tipu sultan by himself. And Coated with gold sheet plates and insert with precious emerald stones, tipu had vowed ne’er to use it till he completely defeated English Army. thus after the death of tipu, British Administration demolished the throne and auctioned in elements since it had been too expensive  for a single person to buy it in entire piece.
                  The rooms in the ground floor are converted into alittle museum showcasing numerous achievements of tipu sultan and his administration. There are freshly done portraits of the folks and places of that time. there’s a replica of Tipu’s Tiger, that is presently in the Victoria and Albert museum at London. the garments of tipu sultan and his crown are gift in silver and gold platform. The silver carrier given by a general to Hyder Ali is also displayed.
                   The area ahead of the palace is developed as a garden and field by agriculture Department, Government of Karnataka. The palace is open to public daily from 10am to 6pm (except on Sundays), and there’s an entry fee of 5 per person for Indians and 100 per person for foreigners. Photography is allowed and there’s no special fee for camera.
                   Tipu sultan (20 Nov 1750 – four might 1799), also called the Tiger of Mysore and Tippoo sahib and he was a ruler of Mysore kingdom and a scholar, soldier and writer. tipu was the eldest son of sultan Hyder Ali of Mysore and his wife Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa. The Tipu sultan provided a number of administrative innovations during his rule as well as the introduction of a new coin a new Mauludi lunisolar calendar and a new land revenue system initiating the expansion of Mysore silk industry. And the Tipu sultan develop the iron-cased Mysore an rockets that he deployed in his resistance against military advances of British.
                    In alliance with the French in their struggle with British, and in Mysore’s struggles with other encompassing powers, each tipu and his father used their French trained army against the Maratha and rulers of Malabar and Coorg and Bednore and Carnatic and Travancore. during tipu’s kid age is father rose to take power in Mysore and upon his father’s death in 1782 the Tipu succeeded to a large kingdom bordered  by the Krishna stream in the north and also the japanese Ghats aspect in the east and also the sea within the west. He won necessary victories against British in the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and negotiated the 1784 pact of Mangalore with them once his father Hyder Ali died from cancer in December 1782 during the second Mysore war.
                 Tipu sultan palace is very cool and very beautiful place surrounding this palace very beautiful park gardens’ and very greenery, Tipu sultan palace build with big hard wood pillars and inside the palace gold and coffee color coated its very attractive the color and very big halls also there. The constructing also very beautiful as well as very big and ventilation air coming in to the palace very well. Mostly many more people know this place Tipu sultan summer palace, many more tourists came from different places to see this palace and nowadays this palace is very good tourism place in Bangalore.

1 comment:

  1. Hi..nice blog post. Tipu sultan's summer palace, a beautiful palace constructed as the summer residence for the Emperor. Tipu Sultan used to conduct the affairs of the state from the western and eastern balconies on the upper floor.

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