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Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India

A visual primary source showing how Mysore resisted British imperialism in southern India in the second half of the eighteenth century

Bram Hubbell
Bram Hubbell
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Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India

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As Europeans expanded and conquered in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they frequently met lots of resistance. One of the best examples to highlight this pattern was in southern India.

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