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'''''Tipu Sultan Kanda Kanasu''''' (English: '''''The Dreams of Tipu Sultan''''') is a 1997<ref>Abha Shukla Kaushik, [http://impressions.50webs.org/jan10/ar_abhask.html "Subaltern Historiography: Girish Karnad’s ''Dreams of Tipu Sultan''"], ''Impressions'' 4.1 (2010). Accessed 13 September 2014.</ref> [[Kannada]] play written by Indian playwright [[Girish Karnad]]. The play has been performed many times but different groups around the world but mostly in the subcontinent and mainly in Pakistan and India. The story follows the last days as well as the historic moments in the life of the Ruler of [[Mysore]], [[Tipu Sultan]], through the eyes of an Indian court historian and a British Oriental scholar. |
'''''Tipu Sultan Kanda Kanasu''''' (English: '''''The Dreams of Tipu Sultan''''') is a 1997<ref>Abha Shukla Kaushik, [http://impressions.50webs.org/jan10/ar_abhask.html "Subaltern Historiography: Girish Karnad’s ''Dreams of Tipu Sultan''"], ''Impressions'' 4.1 (2010). Accessed 13 September 2014.</ref> [[Kannada]] play written by Indian playwright [[Girish Karnad]]. The play has been performed many times but different groups around the world but mostly in the subcontinent and mainly in Pakistan and India. The story follows the last days as well as the historic moments in the life of the Ruler of [[Mysore]], [[Tipu Sultan]], through the eyes of an Indian court historian and a British Oriental scholar. |
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Girish Karnad's play is based on a Farsi manuscript written by Tipu Sultan in his own had writing preserved in the India Office Library. It was later translated and published as ''The Dreams of Tipu Sultan''. In this text, Tipu Sultan recorded some of his dreams from 1785 to 1798. Several of the dreams are about defeating the Marathas and the Nazarenes (i.e, the English).<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/dreamsoftipusult00tipprich#page/n0/mode/2up, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, Tr. Mahmud Husain, Pakistan Historical Society Publications, 1957]</ref> |
Girish Karnad's play is based on a Farsi manuscript written by Tipu Sultan in his own had writing preserved in the India Office Library. It was later translated and published as ''The Dreams of Tipu Sultan''. In this text, Tipu Sultan recorded some of his dreams from 1785 to 1798. Several of the dreams are about defeating the unbelievers, the Marathas and the Nazarenes (i.e, the English), and visions of the companions of the Prophet and Islamic sages.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/dreamsoftipusult00tipprich#page/n0/mode/2up, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, Tr. Mahmud Husain, Pakistan Historical Society Publications, 1957]</ref> |
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The figure of [[Tipu Sultan]] has continued to dominate Indian and British imagination for over two centuries,{{Who|date=August 2011}} as attested by the numerous scholarly works, ballads, plays and novels about his tempestuous life and tragic end. What is less well known,{{Who|date=August 2011}} however, is that this man, who spent a large part of his life on horseback, maintained a record of his dreams that he concealed from his nearest associates. ''The Dreams of Tipu Sultan'' examines the inner life of this warrior, political visionary, and dreamer.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} |
The figure of [[Tipu Sultan]] has continued to dominate Indian and British imagination for over two centuries,{{Who|date=August 2011}} as attested by the numerous scholarly works, ballads, plays and novels about his tempestuous life and tragic end. What is less well known,{{Who|date=August 2011}} however, is that this man, who spent a large part of his life on horseback, maintained a record of his dreams that he concealed from his nearest associates. ''The Dreams of Tipu Sultan'' examines the inner life of this warrior, political visionary, and dreamer.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} |
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Tipu Sultan Kanda Kanasu (English: The Dreams of Tipu Sultan) is a 1997[1] Kannada play written by Indian playwright Girish Karnad. The play has been performed many times but different groups around the world but mostly in the subcontinent and mainly in Pakistan and India. The story follows the last days as well as the historic moments in the life of the Ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, through the eyes of an Indian court historian and a British Oriental scholar.
Girish Karnad's play is based on a Farsi manuscript written by Tipu Sultan in his own had writing preserved in the India Office Library. It was later translated and published as The Dreams of Tipu Sultan. In this text, Tipu Sultan recorded some of his dreams from 1785 to 1798. Several of the dreams are about defeating the unbelievers, the Marathas and the Nazarenes (i.e, the English), and visions of the companions of the Prophet and Islamic sages.[2]
The figure of Tipu Sultan has continued to dominate Indian and British imagination for over two centuries,[who?] as attested by the numerous scholarly works, ballads, plays and novels about his tempestuous life and tragic end. What is less well known,[who?] however, is that this man, who spent a large part of his life on horseback, maintained a record of his dreams that he concealed from his nearest associates. The Dreams of Tipu Sultan examines the inner life of this warrior, political visionary, and dreamer.[citation needed]
Translations
- Collected Plays: Taledanda, the Fire and the Rain, the Dreams of Tipu Sultan, Flowers and Images: Two Dramatic Monologues: Flowers : Broken Images, Vol. 2. Oxford University Press, USA. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-567311-1.
References
- ^ Abha Shukla Kaushik, "Subaltern Historiography: Girish Karnad’s Dreams of Tipu Sultan", Impressions 4.1 (2010). Accessed 13 September 2014.
- ^ The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, Tr. Mahmud Husain, Pakistan Historical Society Publications, 1957
The Dreams of Tipu Sultan : https://archive.org/stream/dreamsoftipusult00tipprich#page/n0/mode/2up
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