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Tipu Sultan ruled the kingdom of Mysore from 1782-1799 succeeding his father Haider Ali. Tipu was a great diplomat and master strategist and pursued diplomatic efforts in India and abroad mainly to defeat the British who were the most formidable adversaries of India. He used meticulous diplomacy and enlightened vision as the key ingredients of a recipe to vanquish the British in India. Tipu and Marx had considered the British as the enemies of the people in the 18th century. Tipu prepared the ground for a historic national freedom movement in India. He institutionalized an era of progressive governance based on state capitalism and absolute patriotism. Tipu Sultan was a committed fighter against British colonialism. He wanted to enlist the active support of the French, the ruler of Afghanistan, the Sultan of Ottoman, the Marathas, the Nizam, the Malabar king and others to fight against British imperialism. It is necessary to revisit traditions and history and understand the personality of Tipu in the context of the great historical continuum of South Asian societies and politics. He had commanded the loyalty, respect and support of his subjects for his value-based governance and adoption of secularism as a way of life.