Administration of Tipu

Tipu Sultan ( November 1750  – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore and Tipu Sahib, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a scholar, soldier, and poet. Tipu was the eldest son of Sultan Hyder Ali of Mysore and his wife Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa. Tipu introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including his coinage, a new Mauludi lunisolar calendar, and a new land revenue system which initiated the growth of Mysore silk industry. Tipu expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and wrote the military manual Fathul Mujahidin, considered a pioneer in the use of rocket artillery. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies in their 1792 and1799 Siege of Srirangapatna.

The nature of the government of Tipu was despotism.Sultan was the embodiment of all civil, political and military authority in this state.He was his own foreign minister, its own commander in chief and highest court of appeal.He look great care in the welfare and happiness of the people.

In Central Government administration he introduced western system of administration in mysore.Each department was  put under  the charge of a chief assisted by a number of subordinate officers. There were 7 department of administration.Each under a mir-asif, directly responsible to the sultan. The provinces divided into districts and villages. the traditional village panchayat handled local affairs. In the revenue system he continued from Hyder and added it efficiency to it.he discouraged jagirdhary system and tied to establish relation with cultivators and govt.

He promoted both foreign and inland trade.he tried to establish commercial relation with china.Number of factories set up in mysore and manufacture variety of articles ranging from war ammunitions, paper, sugar, silk fabrics and fancy items.In 1786 Tipu Sultan, again following the lead of his father, decided to build a navy consisting of 20 battleships of 72 cannons and 20 frigates of 62 cannons. In the year 1790 he appointed Kamaluddin as his Mir Bahar and established massive dockyards at Jamalabad and Majidabad. Tipu Sultan's board of admiralty consisted of 11 commanders in service of a Mir Yam. A Mir Yam led 30 admirals and each one of them had two ships. By the year 1789 most of Tipu Sultan's ships had copper-bottoms, an idea that increased the longevity of the ships and was introduced to Tipu by Admiral Suffren.

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