. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ring his wars in the Car-natic, Hyder made captive great numbers of the lowest class of field laborers,many of whom were slaves, and formed them into colonies in the mostuncultivated districts of his dominions, where lands were assigned them,and orders given by that judicious prince that they should not be called bythe name that marked them as men of inferior caste, but that they should betermed cultivators. Hyder Ali founded the city and fortress of Bangalore, which, in his time,was a pl
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ring his wars in the Car-natic, Hyder made captive great numbers of the lowest class of field laborers,many of whom were slaves, and formed them into colonies in the mostuncultivated districts of his dominions, where lands were assigned them,and orders given by that judicious prince that they should not be called bythe name that marked them as men of inferior caste, but that they should betermed cultivators. Hyder Ali founded the city and fortress of Bangalore, which, in his time,was a place of great importance on account of its numerous manufacturesand its trade with the neighboring states ; but in the reign of Tippoo, who didnot rule with the moderation of his predecessor, the inhabitants of Bengaloresuffered in consequence of being prohibited from trading with Arcot and Hy-derabad, the capitals of the Carnatic, and the dominions of the nizam, thatbeing the title by which the soubehdar of the Deccan was then distinguished. REIGN OF TIPPOO SAIB. 495 CHAPTER XXI. REIGN OF TIPPOO ^^^YDER ALI was succeeded by his son, Tippoo, aprince equal to his fatlier in ambition and militarytalent, but far inferior in policy, and a violentpersecutor of the Christian natives, who were nu-merous in all those parts of India where the Por-tuguese had held settlements owing chiefly to theexertions of the Jesuits, who had spread theB^ Christian faith to a considerable extent among thevillagers on the coast of Malabar. For some time after his accession to the throneof Mysore, Tippoo maintained the war againstthe English, till the news of a peace betweenGreat Britain and France occasioned the secession of his French allies, andled to a treaty with the British, concluded in the month of March, 1784,by which all conquests were to be mutually restored, and the Indian princewas to set at liberty all the prisoners confined in the different fortresses ofMysore. Tippoo Saib was now t
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