The Message Of Tipu Sultan

THE MESSAGE OF TIPU SULTAN.,

Tipu Sultan reached the door of Fort of Srirangapatnam with his

bodyguards and troops on 4th May 1799 for the fourth Mysore
war. Due to his appearance there was a great encouragement for
his soldiers who were fighting inside of the north gate and
outside of fort walls. They attacked with great force on the army
of the enemy. The Sultan got down from his horse and joined
the first line of the military group.

Immediately he was in the middle of many Mysorean military

groups, safe and protected. The soldiers were fighting without
care of their lives. By this time the British army had occupied
their positions at the fort walls. The firing from the upper side
was causing difficulties to the soldiers of Sultan who were
fighting on the ground. The officers who were treacherous were
absent from duty on that front, but this was not a problem for the
soldiers of Sultan because the leader of their respect and
freedom was with them. They forgot that the enemy had finished
his journey of weeks and months in the shortest possible time
and they had entered Srirangapatnam due to misdeeds of
treacherous. So, it was not war but it was a treachery against the
brave pillar of India, who stood against the colonial powers in
India when all the local rulers had supported them. The soldiers
of Sultan forgot that there was a rain of bullets on them and they
also knew well that their great leader, who showed them the
great way in their lives for freedom and respect, was at the door
of the death. Sultan was wounded severally. The wounded
soldiers of Sultan were feeling happy with their wounds on their
chests. They were watching the brave face of the death. The
blood of the Sultan was falling on the soil of Srirangapatnam.
When the second bullet hit the Sultan there was weakness on the
face of the tiger of Mysore, but he was still fighting bravely and
many of his soldiers were also fighting with him without caring
for their lives. Inside the trench there were large number of dead
bodies of the enemy. Thousands of British, who were wounded
severally, were dying. The firing from two sides on the walls of
fort was very severe. Regarding the Mysorean soldiers, number
of death crossed thousands. When the condition of Sultan
became very serious due to wounds, then his bodyguards told
the Sultan, His Highness; now there is no other way except to
surrender ourselves to the enemy?
The Sultan replied, No, for me the tigers life of one-minute is
better than the jackals life of 1000 years.
After some time, the Sultan and his officers rode on their horses
and the Mysorean soldiers followed them. But when they
reached the northern gate of the Fort they saw that some of the
positions were in the control of the British enemy. A large
number of soldiers, children, old persons and women were
trying hard to go out of the Fort, but the British were pushing
them inside the Fort with their guns and were forcing them to go
to the backside of the Fort. When they saw the Mysorean army
coming towards the gate, they started firing them. The firing was
also started from the walls of Fort and a bullet hit the Sultans
horse. It died on the spot. The Sultan fell on the ground and his
turban also fell on the ground near him. But the Sultan was very
brave, he tried and with great difficulty he was making himself
stand when suddenly a bullet hit his chest. He fell on the ground
again. A British soldier tried to open the belt of his sword but
the Sultan was still alive and he did not allow the soldier to take
out the sword. It was an insult to the Sultan. He fought bravely
and hit the soldier with his sword with his full force, but the
soldier opposed with his gun. The Sultans sword hit the gun and
it broke into two pieces. That soldier then raised his gun up,
pointed it towards his head and made the fire. The sun of
Mysore, who had shown the beautiful stages of freedom to the
people of Mysore, had set. After three hours of sun set the
British army captured the city of Srirangapatnam and its Fort.
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Reference book :
Nasim Hijazi's Urdu novel Aur Talwar Toot Gai
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Translated from Urdu to English by:
Muhammed A. Hafeez, B.COM.
Email: hafeezanwar@yahoo.com
Hyderabad-36, (India).
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