The Jacobin Club of Mysore was the first Revolutionary Republican organization to be formed in India. It was founded in 1794 by French Republican officers with the support of Tipu Sultan, named after the Jacobin Club in France. He planted a Liberty Tree and declared himself Citizen.[1]
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When the Jacobin Club of Mysore sent a delegation to Tipu Sultan, 500 Mysore rockets were launched as part of the gun salute.
Francis Ripauld was elected President-Citizen, and the Jacobins declared their hatred for all kings except Citizen Tipu[2] and loyalty to the Republic.[3]
The British regarded the link-up of Revolutionary Jacobin forces and Indian resistance as an extremely dangerous development. In the subsequent Fourth Anglo-Mysore war in 1799 against Tipu, the British forced the surrender of French military personnel in Hyderabad, citing their "most virulent principles of Jacobinism."[4]
In a 2005 paper, historian Jean Boutier argued that the club's existence was fabricated by the East India Company to justify British military intervention against Tipu.[5]
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References edit
- ^ Upendrakishore Roychoudhury (101). White Mughals. Penguin Books India. ISBN 9780143030461.
- ^ Hasan, Mohibbul (2005). History of Tipu Sultan. Aakar Books. ISBN 9788187879572.
- ^ Bowring, Lewin Bentham (1997). Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, and the Struggle with the Musalman Powers of the. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 9788120612990.
- ^ Rapport M. (2015). "Jacobinism from outside" (PDF). In Andress D. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution. Oxford handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780199639748.
- ^ Boutier, Jean (2005). "Les "lettres de créances" du corsaire Ripaud. Un "club jacobin" à Srirangapatnam (Inde), mai-juin 1797". Les Indes Savantes.