"The Governor of Madras Thomas Munro (1761-1827) considered Tipu’s Mysore as “the most simple and despotic monarchy in the world” (Glieg, 1830, pp. 1, 84)."
— Tipu Sultan

January 1, 1970

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T Munro, quoted in Tipu Sultan in History: Revisionism Revised. Narasingha Sil, 2013. Glieg, G. R. . (1830). The life of major-general Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K. C. B., late Governor of Madras (3 vols). London, England: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.