Tipu Sultan : image & distance / edited by Giles Tillotson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tillotson, G. H. R. (Giles Henry Rupert), 1960- editor.

Delhi Art Gallery, copyright holder, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799.

Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli.

India--History--Mysore Wars, 1766-1799--Exhibitions.

India.

History painting--India--Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa--18th century.

History painting.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

175 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : DAG, [2022]

Summary:

"We have collected a large body of works - including paintings, prints, maps and other objects - mostly made by British artists, which together tell the story of the Mysore wars between the East India Company and Tipu Sultan and his father, Haider Ali. To put these objects in a wider context we have included also some works by Indian artists made at the same time. And this book includes a number of chapters written by leading specialists who examine such topics as Tipu Sultan's changing reputation through time, the visual and material culture of his own court, and the women of his court, who have been overlooked in earlier narratives." --[Page 7].

Contents:

Foreword / Ashish Anand

Introduction / Giles Tillotson

1. The lives and afterlives of Tipu Sultan of Mysore / Janaki Nair

2. 'Dropped from the clouds': Tipu Sultan in history painting and the British imagination / Giles Tillotson

3. Political strategies and artistic patronage of Tipu Sultan / Savita Kumari

4. The women of Tipu Sultan's court / Jennifer Howes

5. 'Cruel savages and numerous Barbarians': eyewitness accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799) / Aditi Mazumdar

Catalogue

Timeline

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789381217924

9381217920

OCLC:

1354330082