1. Background
2. Course of War
3. Result of Fourth Anglo – Mysore War
4. Mysore After Tipu
5. Subsidiary Alliance
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Topic – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (Notes)
Subject – History
(Modern Indian History)
Table of Contents
The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was fought in South India in 1798–99 between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company and the Deccan. This was the fourth and final of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. Mysore’s capital was conquered by the British. Tipu Sultan, the ruler, was killed in the conflict. Britain gained indirect control of Mysore, returning the Wadiyar family to the throne.
Background
- The English, as well as Tipu Sultan, exploited the years 1792-1799 to make up for their losses.
- Tipu fulfilled all of the Treaty of Seringapatam’s stipulations and had his sons liberated.
- When the Hindu king of the Wodeyar dynasty died in 1796, Tipu refused to appoint Wodeyar’s little son to the throne and declared himself Sultan.
- He also resolved to avenge his humiliating defeat as well as the stipulations of the Treaty of Seringapatam.
- Lord Wellesley took over as governor-general in 1798, succeeding Sir John Shore.
- Wellesley, an imperialist at heart, was anxious about Tipu’s increasing affinity with the French and sought to annihilate Tipu’s independent existence or compel him to submit through the Subsidiary Alliance system.
- So, the charge sheet against Tipu said that he was scheming against the English with the Nizam and the Marathas and that he had despatched agents with treasonable intent to Arabia, Afghanistan, Kabul, and Zaman Shah, as well as to the Isle of France (Mauritius) and Versailles.
- Wellesley was unsatisfied with Tipu’s explanation.
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