Did Karnataka’s 2025 Republic Day tableau feature the 18th century Mysuru ruler, Tipu Sultan? That’s what many claimed on social media as they shared a photo of a tableau featuring a giant Tipu Sultan ...

Claim: Karnataka displayed Tipu Sultan on its tableau in the 2025 Republic Day parade in Delhi. Fact: The claim is misleading. The viral image is from 2014. Karnataka tableau in the 2025 parade ...

One print depicts Tipu’s two sons being taken hostage by Lord Charles Cornwallis, after the third Anglo-Mysore war in February 1792, and the other is a portrayal of their return to their mother.