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Critically examine: Tipu Sultan had little success in setting forth a course of change significantly different from the general experience of the 18th century crisis of Indian politics and society where public life tended over and over to become a system of plundering.

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  • British Expansion in India

Tipu Sultan's reign combined genuine administrative ambition with the same underlying dynamics of plunder and militarised extraction that characterised most eighteenth-century Indian polities — raising the question of how far he actually broke the mould.

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  • Evidence of a Genuine Course of Change
  • Evidence That He Remained Within the Eighteenth-Century Pattern

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