Prince Sahibzada

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Shareef Ghulam Muhammad Sultan Khan Sahib, (March 1795 in

Srirangapatna 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 ...

m – 11 August 1872 in Russapagla,

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) was the fourteenth son of

Tipu Sultan Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery.Dalrymple, p. 243 He in ...

. Deported to

in 1806 along with the remainder of his family 7 years after the defeat and death of his father, he was eventually recognised by the

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as the official head of the family and successor to his father. Known as the last surviving son of

and Knighted in 1870, he died 2 years later, aged of 77, of

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