Editing Tipu Sultan (section)

===In fiction===
[[File:General Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tippoo Sahib.jpg|thumb|''[[Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tipoo Sahib]]'' by [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]], 1839]]
* He has a role in [[G. A. Henty|G. A. Henty's]] 1896 book ''[[G. A. Henty#List of titles|The Tiger of Mysore]]'',<ref name="gutenberg">{{Cite book|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18813/18813-h/18813-h.htm |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Tiger of Mysore, by G. A. Henty|date=12 July 2006 |via=Project Gutenberg}}</ref> and is also mentioned in Henty's 1902 ''[[G. A. Henty#List of titles|At the Point of the Bayonet]]'',<ref name="gutenberg" /> which deals with much of the same period.
* In [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Mysterious Island]]'', [[Captain Nemo]] is described as Tipu's nephew.
*He was portrayed by [[Paidi Jairaj]] in the 1959 Indian historical drama film ''Tipu Sultan'', directed by Jagdish Gautam.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tipu Sultan (1959)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b779b10ec|website=[[BFI]]}}</ref>
*''[[Bharat Ek Khoj]]'', a 1988 Indian television series based on [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]'s ''[[The Discovery of India]]'' which aired on [[DD National]], dedicated an episode to Tipu Sultan with [[Salim Ghouse]] portraying the king.
* Tipu's life and adventures were the central theme of a short-running [[South Indian]] television series ''The Adventures of Tipu Sultan'', and of a more popular national television series ''[[The Sword of Tipu Sultan (TV serial)|The Sword of Tipu Sultan]]'' based on a historical novel by Bhagwan Gidwani.<ref name="pod">{{cite web|last=Swaminathan |first=Chitra|title=The return of the Sultan |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/05/20/stories/2006052000080200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804095954/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/05/20/stories/2006052000080200.htm|url-status=dead |archive-date=4 August 2009|work=The Hindu  |date=20 May 2006 |access-date=17 August 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Khosla|first=G. D.|date=1977 |title=Review of The Sword of Tipu Sultan |journal=India International Centre Quarterly |volume=4|issue=2 |pages=214–216|jstor=23001501 |issn=0376-9771}}</ref>
*''[[The Dreams of Tipu Sultan]]'' is a 1997 play written in Kannada by Indian writer [[Girish Karnad]]. It follows the last days as well as the historic moments in the life of Tipu, through the eyes of an Indian court historian and a British Oriental scholar.
* ''[[Tipu Sultan: The Tiger Lord]]'' is a Pakistani television series that broadcast on [[Pakistan Television Corporation|PTV]] in 1997, deals with the life of Sultan.
* [[Naseem Hijazi]]'s novels ''Muazam Ali'' and ''Aur Talvar Ṭūṭ Gaye'' (''And The Sword Broke'') describe Tipu's wars.
* [[Wilkie Collins]]'s novel ''[[The Moonstone]]'' contains an account of Tipu and the fall of [[Srirangapatna]] in the prologue.
* In ''The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' by [[Rudolf Erich Raspe]], [[Baron Munchausen|Munchausen]] vanquishes Tipu near the end of the novel.
* ''[[Sharpe's Tiger (novel)|Sharpe's Tiger]]'' is a novel by [[Bernard Cornwell]] in which Napoleonic–era British soldier [[Richard Sharpe (fictional character)|Richard Sharpe]] fights at Seringapatam, later killing Tipu.
* Tipu appears as a "Great Person" in the video games, [[Civilization Revolution|Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution]] and [[Civilization IV|Sid Meier's Civilization IV]].
* In his historical [[Konkani language|Konkani]]-language novels on the [[Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam|Seringapatam captivity]] of Konkani Catholics by Indian littérateur [[V. J. P. Saldanha]], ''Belthangaddicho Balthazar'' (Balthazar of [[Belthangady]]), ''Devache Krupen'' (By the Grace of God), ''Sardarachi Sinol'' (The sign of the Knights) and ''Infernachi Daram'' (The gates of Hell), Tipu is portrayed as "cunning, haughty, hard-hearted, revengeful, yet full of self-control".<ref name="Saldanha">{{cite book|last=George|first=K. M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&pg=PA217|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1992|isbn=978-81-7201-324-0|volume=2|page=217}}</ref>