Tipu Sultan's commander: Lost in history, found in fiction

February 20, 2019 10:09

This is not Tipu Sultan's story, but of one of his commanders, although the ruler of the kingdom of Mysore is briefly present. "I want to live in anonymity far away from the palace and the harem," the tired nawab says just before he orders the commander to set off with battle-weary soldiers to defuse, tactfully, a conflict between two religious communities.

It is the commander who remains anonymous in history, and Krishnamurthy Hanuru's novel suggests that such a man's adventures can become the stuff of folklore and local tales. Read more

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