salam. If anyone has heard about this particular book, please do let me konw if it is reliable. My family borrowed a book about tipu sultan from the library. I wanted to ask if it is a reliable one to learn history from. Jazak Allahu khaira.
Who was Tipu Sultan? Cutting through myth and fiction, Kasurian presents an alternative perspective of his rule as the first of the modernising Muslim statesmen and the last line of defence for India against the British. Read the full story on Kasurian. Link in the reply below: https://kasurian.com/p/tipu-sultan?hide_intro_popup=true&open=false&s=09
The people were watching a dangerous storm on the HORIZON. The people were watching a dangerous storm on the horizon. After some time a black storm covered the entire sky. When the procession reached Lal Bagh and the qazi finished the funeral prayer, the corpse was placed respectfully in the grave. At that time there was severe thundering in the sky. People were very afraid of it. The British army was ordered for the gun salute but the sound of the guns was not heard clearly because of the thundering of clouds. It seemed that the sky was making 'arrangement' to welcome the soul of great Tipu Sultan. The darkness in the atmosphere and the thundering of lightening increased and due to this the houses and doors started shaking in the city. General Meadows, Major Beatson and Ellen had descried this black storm in their diaries in which they had written that lightening had fallen on some parts of city of Srirangapatnam as well on the British army camp of Bombay in which two soldiers were dead and a large number of soldiers were severally wounded. The treacherous, who were in the procession under the custody of the British soldiers, were very afraid of this. Immediately after the funeral started the heavy rain and the streets and bazaars of Srirangapatnam were full of water. After some time some officers and soldiers of the Mysorean army noticed the flood in the river Kaveri. An old army officer wept loudly and said, "I have not seen such a flood in the river Kaveri in the first week of May ever in my life. Oh! Treacherous of Mysore, you should have waited for one more day as the God was willing to help us but you have missed that chance. On that day if you had not opened the doors of Srirangapatnam then we could have defeated the enemy without wasting our single bullet." He then said, "Oh! My friends, for this day the Sultan was waiting. How unfortunate we are that the clouds which would have witnessed our success, they are washing the tears of our defeated soldiers." ==================================================== Translated from Urdu to English by Mohammed A. Hafeez, B.COM. EmaiEMAIL : hafeezanwar@yahoo.com HYDERABAD, INDIA., =================================================================== Reference BOOK : Nasim Hijazi's Urdu novel 'Aur Talwar Toot Gai' ============================================
