In addition to being Tipu’s Ambassador to France and being dispatched to Tipu’s Ottoman counterpart, Sultan Abdul Hamid I in Constantinople, his most notable work was his role as Custodian of Tipu Sultan’s sons. Ghulam Ali of Mysore is also famed as being the ‘power behind Tipu’. Mir Ghulam Ali is recorded in history as the Vakeel (Ambassador) and Chief Naval Commander, Amir ul-Bahar of the King of Mysore Badshah Nasib ad-Dawla Mir Fateh Ali Bahadur Tipu Sultan, and part of his elite top secret Phantom admiralty. It was during this period Syed Vicaruddin’s ancestor Mir Ghulam Ali was sent by the King of Mysore to secure a military alliance with Louis XVI, by offering significant financial assistance to the Emperor for poverty struck France, in return for military support against the British for the 3rd and 4th Mysore Wars.
Not only were the royal coffers almost empty, but the Divine curse of two decades of poor harvests, Biblical proportion drought, degenerate cattle disease and skyrocketing bread prices had kindled unrest among the poverty stricken majority. In 1786 while India was still the second largest economy on earth, France was on the brink of bankruptcy and in abject poverty. Photo by Anil Luthra, published in The Arts and Interiors of Rashtrapati Bhavan: Lutyens and Beyond.īy Ahmed Khan, Founder, The Rahnuma DailyĮditor-In-Chief a shocking revelation that could rewrite the way India is perceived in European history, the family of The Rahnuma-E-Deccan Daily () – the world’s oldest surviving Urdu language daily newspaper published by Syed Vicaruddin, its Editor In Chief for over 50 years, revealed a bombshell centuries old family secret. Oil painting of the King of Mysore’s Vakeel Mir Ghulam Ali by Thomas Hickey, 1801, Rashtrapati Bhavan collection, New Delhi.
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