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No Tipu Sultan, no Anglo-Mysore wars in Class 8 NCERT book: Why the Centre says that’s okay

August 6, 2025August 6, 2025cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] On the new NCERT Class 8 Social Science textbook omitting the mention of Tipu Sultan, Haidar Ali, and the Anglo-Mysore wars of the 1700s, the Centre said in response to a question in Parliament on Wednesday that states have the “flexibility to provide more coverage about regional personalities and events in their textbooks.” “Education […]

Column | Tracing empires on paper

March 7, 2025March 7, 2025cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it, mapping was an obsession. The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the Marathas, did not engage in cartography in quite the same way. The British needed to study the topography of what was to them very foreign territory […]

Madras Day | An Anglo-Indian memory of St Thomas Mount

August 9, 2023August 9, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] Dust devils spiral and mango trees creak with the weight of history as boys run about the sun-seared grounds. It is late afternoon at St Thomas Mount and outside the 1830-built St Thomas Garrison Church, you can hear the thump of cricket ball on bat. Not long ago, on these grounds adjoining the Mohite […]

Excavations shed light on Farokhabad fort, Tipu Sultan’s Malabar capital

September 29, 2022September 30, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] Situated on a hillock with the Arabian Sea on one side and the Chaliyar river on the other, this was the only fort in Kerala built entirely by Tipu Sultan Situated on a hillock with the Arabian Sea on one side and the Chaliyar river on the other, this was the only fort in […]

Henry Singleton’s painting of Tipu Sultan now in India

August 12, 2022August 12, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] Giles Tillotson, curator of Tipu Sultan: Image & Distance, an exhibition in New Delhi on the visual history of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, explores the public narrative surrounding these events over two centuries Giles Tillotson, curator of Tipu Sultan: Image & Distance, an exhibition in New Delhi on the visual history of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, […]

New Delhi DAG exhibition of East India Company paintings show Tipu Sultan from a time of propaganda art

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] An exhibition on the erstwhile Mysuru ruler, through the lens of the East India Company’s painters An exhibition on the erstwhile Mysuru ruler, through the lens of the East India Company’s painters Dramatic lighting and black walls set the mood for the viewing of historical paintings dedicated to Tipu Sultan, the enfant terrible of […]