Shahzada Hayder Ali was the grandson of
Hyder Ali and the eldest son of
Tipu Sultan.
After the fall of
Srirangapattana
Srirangapatna is a town and headquarters of one of the seven Taluks of Mandya district, in the Indian State of Karnataka. It gets its name from the Ranganthaswamy temple consecrated at around 984 CE. Later, under the British rule the city wa ...
and death of
Tipu Sultan on 4 May 1799, Shezada Hyder Ali and other family members were sent to the
Vellore fort on 19 June 1799 and kept under custody of the
East India Company. Shezada Hyder Ali managed to escape.
On July 10, 1806, at the marriage of one of Tipu Sultan's daughters at the Vellore fort, Indian soldiers staged a revolt known as the
Vellore Mutiny, opening fire in the fort (mandapam), killing several army officers and taking control of the fort's arms and ammunition. They pulled down the
Union Jack flag, hoisted the Royal Tiger Flag of Tipu Sultan in its stead, and declared Shezada Hyder Ali as their king.
However, they failed to close the gates of the fort securely, and a British officer escaped and alerted the garrison in Arcot. Nine hours later, the British
19th Light Dragoons
The 19th Light Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army created in 1781 for service in British India. The regiment served in India until 1806, and in North America during the War of 1812, and was disbanded in Britain in 1821.
History ...
, led by Colonel
Rollo Gillespie, and the Madras Cavalry recaptured the fort. Nearly 350 of the rebels were killed, and another 350 injured before the fighting had stopped. Some accounts state that 17 Indian officers were hanged in public and many were imprisoned at the Vellore and Tiruchi prisons.
Shezada Hyder Ali later was married Zaibunnisa Begum of
Bijapur
Bijapur, officially known as Vijayapura, is the district headquarters of Bijapur district of the Karnataka state of India. It is also the headquarters for Bijapur Taluk. Bijapur city is well known for its historical monuments of architectural ...
. They had a son, Fateh Ahmed Sahib, in Bijapur in 1816. Today, many of Shezada Hyder Ali's descendants live in
Calcutta,
Karnataka,
Andhra Pradesh, and
Sydney
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(Australia).
References
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19th-century Indian Muslims