How many lions did the British kill in hatred of Tipu Sultan? 

  A distinguished foreign guest taught us how to protect wildlife, then remembered how ruthlessly the British massacred lions and wildlife in India and hunted about 80,000 lions. Today we will talk about the more painful aspect of this tragic case, why all this was done?

  Professor Joseph Ceramic writes in his book "Face Him" ​​"Like a British  that one of the reasons for this ruthless hunting of lions in India during the British rule was the British hatred of Tipu Sultan.

 Everyone knows that Sultan Tipu was fond of lions. He was also called the Lion of Mysore. Tipu is a Sanskrit word which means like a lion. 

 The brutality with which British officers and officials hunted in the jungles of the subcontinent is a dark chapter in itself. Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of the Gandhi Arwan Treaty, is said to have killed 10,000 sheep and partridges. With the idea that by making one of the descendants of the Sultan a Sultan, the people would obey him and shroud his head against the British rule, the Sultan's family was deprived of their inheritance and moved to Britain. * Where they were kept under strict supervision and repaired with Western education and training. Most of the community was left to fend for themselves in a wilderness-filled wilderness on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. 

 Today that area has become the most valuable land in India's largest film studios called Telangana.The descendants of the Sultan live there today in a state of cosmopolitanism and are involved in the repair work of bicycles.

 He never forgot to celebrate the birthday of his great-grandfather Sultan Mysore, the lion of Mysore, who taught him to live a life of self-sufficiency, even in this world of abject poverty.
 When this chain of my thoughts was broken, the party was still going on. The kind people who massacred the wildlife of the subcontinent now came to explain to us that like a civilized nation, they agree that it will take a long time for us local people to become civilized. 

 The sultan's swords and daggers also bore the image of a lion. The lion was the official symbol of their kingdom and the design of the throne that was made for them was as if someone was sitting on top of a lion. Tipu Sultan also had a sculpture made by French architects in which a lion had knocked down a British soldier. The statue is still in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 After defeating Tipu Sultan, the British hunted the lions to outdo Tipu Sultan with such brutality that in the area where millions of lions were found, only a few thousand lions were left at the end of British rule.  All that was meant by this game of horror was to humiliate the lion Mysore Sultan Tipu. To accelerate this process, a firm called Van Engine and Van Engine was set up in Sultan Tipu's Mysore, which embodied lions and made animal models out of their skins.

 It could have been elsewhere that there were cities in India much larger than Mysore where the chances of successful trade of such items were much higher than in Mysore, but the purpose was to humiliate Sultan Tipu. The firm was established in Mysore, Tipu. The intensity of this game of horror in Mysore can be gauged from the fact that * this one firm alone processed the skins of 43,000 lions and 30,000 leopards.

 Lions were killed from all over India and their skins were sent to Mysore city. The lions' skins were dried in the streets, gardens and intersections of Mysore, the city where the lion of Mysore Sultan Tipu lived, and then he was involved in the business of humiliation.

 It is not just a matter of hunting lions, but all relations with Sultan Tipu have been humiliated.  The viceroy named his dog Tipu and then the British deputy commissioners carried on the same ritual.  In the kingdom of Tipu Sultan, the post of Subedar used to be the post of Governor, but  the British gave him the post of Subedar as the post of the youngest officer in their army.  Sultan Tipu's position as food minister was called Khan Saman,  the British began to call their cook Khansaman. 

Tipu Sultan sought help from the caliph of the Ottoman Empire to fight the British in his difficult time. In Tipu's court, the turban was considered a symbol of honour, glory and virtue, which was * adorned on the heads of servants and slaves by the British.

 In the time of Tipu Sultan, Jamadar was the name of a great police officer. See our obedience , We are still embracing this legacy of hatred and humiliation * and understanding that we have become  "civilized".

The British hated Tipu because he was the  last independent Sultan  of India. Calling a character like Bahadur Shah Zafar the last Sultan is nothing short of a joke.  In 1797, Tipu wrote a letter to the Ottoman Empire against the British, but he did not want to write a letter to Shah Alam, the son of Aurangzeb Alamgir, who lived in Delhi. Because Tipu Sultan knew very well that this Sultan was just a piece about which slogans were chanted in the city of Delhi

 Living in the Red Fort, Delhi, the British-raised king considered only a 100x150 km area as the whole of India. A British officer named George Joel hunted 400 lions during his stay in India and Jeffrey Nightingale killed 300 lions. That is, 700 lions were killed by just two British officers.

 When US Brigadier General William Mitchell came to India in 1924 as a guest of the Viceroy, he hunted wild animals here. He is the so-called "Father of the Air Force" in the United States and was later court-martialled. He wrote in an article published in the same year in the National Geographic magazine, Tiger Hunting in India: Put the skins on the roof of the truck to keep them dry along the way. "

 These Bengali-speaking children, while puncturing a ruptured tube of a bicycle, continue to tell customers about the life of their ancestor, Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Tipu, and events related to his caste, and proudly relate their relationship with the Sultan. Explain the chest.

Courtesy of Dr Syed Hassan Raza Bukhari