The history of Tipu Sultan and Chitradurga belongs to an important period of political and military change in Karnataka during the late eighteenth century. Chitradurga, which had flourished for generations under its powerful Nayaka rulers, became part of the expanding Mysore kingdom in 1779, when Hyder Ali, father of Tipu Sultan, captured the famous Chitradurga Fort from the last Nayaka ruler, Madakari Nayaka V.
The history of Chitradurga during the Mysore Wodeyars period represents an important transition from the age of the Chitradurga Nayakas to a more centralised system of administration under the Mysore State. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chitradurga gradually developed through changes in administration, agriculture, irrigation, education, transport and public institutions.
Mysore Period
Raghavendra Padmashali