Kate Brittlebank (Monash University)

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Dr. Kate Brittlebank
Lecturer in Asian History
School of Historical Studies
Monash University
Wellington Road, Calyton, Victoria 3800
Australia

phone: 61-3-9905-2163
FAX:   61-3-9905-2210
email: Kate.Brittlebank@arts.monash.edu.au

description of work:

Late 18th century-early 19th century history, especially south India:
Mysore; Karnataka; Tipu Sultan.

Research interests include cultural history; kingship; royal ritual and
display; religion, particularly Hindu/Muslim interraction; early colonial
history; south-Asian anthropology.

Indian languages: Indo-Persian

Current research project is a study of the final years of
Tipu Sultan's reign and the fall of Srirangapattana (Seringapatam), its
local impact and consequences.

Publications include: 

Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and
Kingship in a Hindu Domain, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 
1997;

"Sakti and Barakat: The Power of Tipu's Tiger.  An
Examination of the the Tiger Emblem of Tipu Sultan of Mysore", Modern
Asian
Studies, 29, 2, 1995, pp. 257-69;

"The White Raja of Srirangapattana: Was Arthur Wellesley Tipu Sultan's
True Successor?", _Indo-British Review_ [Special Edition on Reconstructing
South-Indian History], in press.