Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain

By Kate Brittlebank

Focusing upon the methods adopted by Tipu Sultan to establish his legitimacy as a parvenu ruler, this revisionary study takes an 'nnovative approach to the analysis of kingship in eighteenth-century south India.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195639774
• ISBN13: 9780195639773
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 5.6"