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poligar
Indian chieftain
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opposition to Tippu Sultan
- In India: The south: Travancore and Mysore
…by local chiefs, the so-called poligars. More crucial was the fact that by the 1770s Mysore faced a formidable military adversary in the form of the English East India Company, which did not allow it any breathing room. It was the English who denied Mysore access to the relatively rich…
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