The Embassy headed by Ghulam Ali
As the 8th decade of the 18th century
was drawing to a close, Fateh Ali, a.k.a. Tipu Sultan was left in a quandary.
The Maratha wars had been raging and things were not going too well. The years
of conflict finally ended with Treaty of Gajendragad in March 1787, as per
which Tipu returned territory captured by Hyder Ali, to the Maratha Empire.
Tipu agreed to
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