GIRISH KARNAD’S THE DREAMS OF TIPU SULTAN : A STORY OF POLITICAL POWER CONFLICT
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The play The dreams of Tipu Sultan, deals with the world of dreams secretly recorded by one of India’s most famous warriors. The figure of Tipu Sultan has continued to dominate Indian and British imagination for over two centuries. Plays and novels about his tempestuous life and tragic end testify the same. What, however, is less well known is that this man, who spent a large part of his life on horseback, maintained a record of his dreams, which he kept concealed from his nearest associated. The Dreams of Tipu Sultan examines the inner life of this warrior, political visionary, and dreamer. The story follows the last days as well as the historic moments in the life of the ruler of Mysore through the eyes of an Indian court historian and a British Oriental Scholar. A personage Karnad describes as “one of the most politically perceptive and tragic figures in modern Indian history”.
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