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Khudadad was the name of the radical Muslim empire established in a large part of India by Tipu Sultan, the son of Hyder Ali, based in the -usurped- former Hindu princely state of Mysore, which intended to unseat the Mughal empire which it considered weak and no longer truely Islamic, due to its de facto submissioon to the British Paramountcy. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... A potrait of Tippu Sultan by Edward Orme (1774 -1822). ... Hyder Ali or Haidar Ali (c. ... A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince and is thus a principality taken in the broad sense. ... Mysore or MaisÅ«ru (Kannada: ಮೈಸೂರà³,) is the second largest city in the Indian state of Karnataka. ... The Mughal Empire (alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. ... The doctrine of paramountcy is the legal principle that reconciles contradicting or conflicting laws in a federalist state. ...
The ruler adopted the novel title Pashah Bahadur, which means he claimed to be one rank above the Mughal Padshah-i-Hind. However since Tipu, its only ruler, chose the side of the French against the victorious British, his empire was dismantled, and the territories largely restored to Hindu rulers (as in Mysore itself). However the British showed respect for his military valor by granting his dynasty the 'golden cage' status of Political Pensioners. A pension is a steady income paid to a person (usually after retirement). ...
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