Question

explain the Company rule forced Tipu Sultan accept Treaty (2 marks question)

Answer 1

Tipu Sultan – The “Tiger of Mysore”

When the company saw a threat to its political or economic interests, it resorted to direct military confrontation, as happened in Mysore and many other kingdoms.

Mysore had become powerful under rulers like Haider Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, and it controlled the profitable trade of the Malabar coast where the Company purchased pepper and cardamom.

Tipu Sultan, in 1785, stopped the export of sandalwood, pepper, and cardamom through the ports of his kingdom, and disallowed local merchants from trading with the Company. This angered the company very much.

The Company lost four wars to Mysore, but in the last one, the Battle of Seringapatam, the company won and Tipu Sultan was killed.

Answer 2

Lord Wellesley decided to seize the treaty of Subsidiary Alliance on Tipu Sultan of Mysore, who never admitted it. The British army invaded and crushed Tipu in 1799. In 1801, Lord Wellesley overpowered a distinct treaty against the Nawab of Carnatic enforcing him to cede his kingdom to the British East India Company in repayment for a pension.