page_title: Captivity of Kodavas at Seringapatam
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Captivity of Kodavas at Seringapatam / Background
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Tipu Sultan once owned by Richard Colley Wellsley, now in the care of the British Library.
context_page_description: The Captivity of Kodavas at Seringapatam speaks chiefly of the capture and imprisonment of Kodava by Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, during a number of attempts to suppress their rebellion in the 1780s. These captives were forcibly deported, some of them were converted and some were killed. The estimated numbers of the captives vary according to different sources, from 500 to 85,000. During the Third Anglo-Mysore War 5,000 Coorg men along with their families, amounting to 12,000 people escaped from prison in Seringapatam and came back into Coorg.
caption: Tipu Sultan (1750–1799), the architect of the Seringapatam Captivity
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