Vellore is a historical and cultural city that contains many lesser-known sites for the tourists to explore. Here are some of ...

Vellore too was under the control of the East India Company. Its famous fort, built during 1526-1595 CE, was ‘home’ to members of Tipu Sultan’s family — 12 sons and six daughters — who ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will start the first food court inside the Vellore fort complex soon ... Mysore king Hyder Ali and his son, Tipu Sultan, spent their last years as prisoners.

On Sunday mornings, Lang Bazaar Road, named after British Lieutenant General Ross Lang of the Madras Army in the late 18th Century, comes alive opposite the Vellore Fort. Mostly in dhotis and ...

Currently, offices of Vellore taluk, PWD, District Treasury and Forest Department are located inside the fort, which has a ... king Hyder Ali and his son, Tipu Sultan, spent their years as ...

Officials of ASI, Vellore Circle ... who were stationed inside the fort to guard Mysore rulers, Hyder Ali and his warrior son, Tipu Sultan’s large families. Like the 56 colonial buildings ...

The sun is already high in the sky, beating down fiercely on our heads, when we reach Tipu Sultan’s Summer ... their troops were in the fort area, but after the Vellore Mutiny in 1806, they ...

Tamil Nadu's southern city, Vellore ... visit to this fort allows one to have a peek into the city's turbulent history ...

Following Tipu Sultan’s defeat and death at the battle of Srirangapatna in 1799, his large family and their massive retinue were relocated there. Vellore Fort is best known for the brief but ...

The bedchamber sword of Tipu Sultan, an 18th-century king famous for the commanding role he played in wars in southern India, has sold for £14 million ($17.4 million) at auction in London.

Less-known facts are now emerging about a well-planned fort that was designed to be part of Farokhabad, the capital of Malabar at Feroke near Kozhikode, as envisioned by the Mysore king Tipu Sultan.