Contemporary Accounts (to 1900)

Annual Register
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register
Asiatic Register
Asiatic Researches
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Bombay Kalendar & Register [1806]
Bombay Courier [1793-1812]
The Calcutta Gazette
East India Register and Directory
The Naval Chronicle [1799-1818]
Sydney Gazette & New South Wales Advertiser [1803-1822]

Personal Accounts
Authentic Memoirs of Tippoo Sultan: written by an officer of the East India Service. London: 1799. [Reprint: Delhi, Takshila Hardbounds, 1979].

BEATSON, Alexander. A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun. London: G. & W. Nichol, 1800.

BEGBIE, P.J.History of the Services of the Madras Artillery, with a sketch of the rise of the power of the East India Company in southern India... Madras: 1852 [2 vols.]

BUCHANAN, Francis. A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar: for the express purpose of investigating the state of agriculture, arts and commerce, the religion, manners, and customs, the history natural and civil, and antiquities. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services [Reprint: 1998 [3 vols]. [Originally publ. London: East India Company, 1807].

DIROM, Major [Alexander]. A Narrative of the Campaign in India which terminated the War with Tippoo Sultan in 1792. London: 1793. [Reprint: New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 1985].

FORBES, James. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familial Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India. London: T. Bensley, 1813 [4 vols] (Reprint: Delhi: Gian Publishing House, 1988).

GRAHAM, Maria. Journal of a Residence in India. Edinburgh: George Ramsay, 1812.

HOME, Robert. Select Views in Mysore: the country of Tippoo Sultan from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. Home with historical descriptions. First publ. London: Bower, 1794. [Reprint: New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 2000].

Imperialism & Orientalism: a documentary sourcebook.
(eds.) Barbara Harlow & Mia Carter. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. [See: 'Oriental Despotisms and Political Economies' pp. 40-48 for a selection of contemporary documents relating to Tipu Sultan].

KIRMANI, Mir Hussain Ali Khan. History of Tipu Sultan: being a continuation of the Neshani Hyduri. Translated from Persian by Col. W. Miles. First publ.1864. [Reprint edition 1997].

MACKINTOSH, James. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh. (ed.) Robert James Mackintosh. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1853.

MILL, James. The History of British India. London: 1858 [5th ed.] [See: Book VI Chapter VIII (1798-1799)].

M.D.L.T., (Maistre de La Tour) The History of Hyder Shah, alias Hyder Ali Khan Bahadur, and of His Son Tippoo Sultan. Translated from French. [Variant title: The History of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan: a contemporary history] [by M.M.D.L.T.; revised and corrected by Prince Gholam Mohammed] (Orig. publ. c.1856) New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, [c.1976]. [See: pp.261-313 'Extracted From Charles Stuart's Catalogue and Memoirs of Tippo Sultaun.'(1809)].

MICHAUD, J.F. Michaud's History of Mysore, under Hyder Ali & Tippoo Sultan. / translated from the French by V.K. Raman Menon; with a foreword by the Raja of Panagal. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1985. [Reprint: 1926].
[Translation of: Histoire des progrès et de la chûte de l'empire de Mysore, sous les règnes d'Hyder-Aly et Tippoo-Saib. [Originally published: 1800].

MILBURN, William.Oriental Commerce: containing a geographical description of the principal places in the East Indies, China and Japan... London: Black, Parry & Co., 1813 [2 vols] [Reprint: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1999].

Narrative Sketches of the Conquest of the Mysore, Effected by the British Troops and Their Allies, in the Capture of Seringapatam and the Death of Tippoo Sultaun May 4, 1799. With Notes Descriptive and Explanatory. Worcester: J. Tymbs, 1806 [7th ed.].

"Papers presented to the House of Commons relating to the late war in the East Indies with Tippoo Sultaun." in House of Commons Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth Century (ed.) Sheila Lambert. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1975. [See: Vol. 126: House of Commons Papers: George III: East India Company 1799 and 1800 pp.107-166.]

PRICE, David. Memoirs of the Early Life and Service of a Field Officer on the Retired List of the Indian Army. London W.H. Allen & Co. 1839.

SCOTT, Jonathan. An Historical and Political View of the Deccan South of the Kistnah; including a Sketch of the Extent and Revenue of the Mysorean Dominions as Possessed by Tippoo Sultaun at the Commencement of the War in 1790. With Appendix. London: J. Debrett, 1798. 2nd edition. pp. 1-55. [Reprinted in Representing India Vol. IV. (ed.) Michael John Franklin. London: Routledge, 2000].

The Travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-century journey through India. (ed.) Michael H. Fisher. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 pp.199-203.

VALENTIA, George. Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abysinnia, and Egypt in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806. London: Rivington, 1811. [4 vols.] [Reprint: New Delhi; Asian Educational Services, 1994.]
(See: Vol. 1: India-Ceylon pp. 357-368 for a description of Seringapatam, and some observations on the character and behaviour of Tipu, and his father, Haidar Ali).

WELSH, James, Military Reminiscences: extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' active service in the East Indies London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1830, 3rd ed. [2 vols].

WILKS, Mark. Historical Sketches of the South of India in an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor: from the origin of the Hindoo government of that state, to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799. Edited with notes by Murray Hammick. Mysore: Government Branch Press, 1930-1932. [2 vols.] [Reprint. Originally published: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810 [4 vols].

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