ABSTRACT
Hyder Ali was succeeded by his son, Tippu Sahib, a fanatical Mahommedan, "The Tiger of Mysore," whose sanguinary excursions had for their object forcible conversions of Hindus and Indian Christians as well as booty. The Maharajah's government is in accordance with Indian ideas of what government should be, and the people of Mysore are patriotically but reasonably proud of their State, and of what it has done and is doing. Across a little valley there is, opposite the city of Mysore, a steep hill crowned by a temple where the divine ancestress of the Maharajahs dwells. The Mysore mine, the biggest and deepest of the group, had reached a depth of 5,000 feet from the surface, 2,000 feet below sea-level. Bangalore is the site of the Tata Institute for scientific research. With a population of about 350,000 it is much the biggest town in South India after Madras.
