Sword, from Tipu Sultan's reign between 1782, 1799, is described as fine gold koftgari hilted steel sword referred to as sukhela an emblem of authority
Tipu Sultan slept in a hammock suspended from the ceiling of his locked bedchamber with this sword by his side. Found in his private apartments after his defeat at the battle of Seringapatam in May 1799, it was also previously owned by Vijay Mallya and the descendants of Major General David Baird of the East India Company
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India has not yet got its hands on the Koh-i-Noor, despite the county’s many efforts to retrieve the diamond from Britain’s crown jewels. But the ongoing controversy over the jewel has obscured the success of the country’s wider efforts to repatriate cultural and historical artefacts. Since 2014 India’s leader Narendra Modi has made it his personal