Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan and the Struggle with the Musalmán Powers of the South

THE MYSORE RA7AS 15 the tenets of the Lingiyat faith 1. Such was the commencement of the rule of the present Mysore sovereigns who though of noble descent were unlike most of their predecessors in the Karnatik of foreign origin. [...] CHAPTER II HAIDAR RISES INTO NOTICCONTEST FOR SUPREMACY IN SOUTHERN INDIA DURING the reign of the Emperor Shahjahan when his son Aurangzeb was Viceroy of the Deccan a great part of the Karnatik was overrun by the troops of the King of Bijapur under the command of Ran Du1136 Khan and Shahji father of the great Sivaji. [...] of fidelity was weak enough to put him in command of a respecable body of troops and to give him the title of The districts referred to are in the northern part of the Salem district of Madras the hills which enclose the greater part of them protruding from the plateau of Mysore the passes into which they practically commanded. [...] To the Chirakkal or Kolattiri chief he left his regalia and the northern part of his territory ; to the Utayavar of V engt ancestor of the Travancore Raja the southern part ; to the Perimpatappa chief who is supposed to have been his son Cochin ; and to the Zamorin his sword and as much country as the crowing of a cock could be heard over 1. The language spoken in this part of Southern India [...] Owing to the gallant resistance of the Nairs and to the difficulty of forcing When one of the brothers visited the wife he left his sandals and his weapons in charge of a servant in the porch as a sign that the lady was engaged.