Editing Hyder Ali (section)

==Ancestry==
According to some historians, Hyder Ali is thought to be of [[Arab]] ancestry.<ref name=nadwi/><ref name=Wink>{{Cite book |last=Wink |first=André |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPXvDwAAQBAJ&dq=tipu+sultan+quraysh&pg=PA209 |title=The Making of the Indo-Islamic World |date=2020 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |language=en |page=209 |isbn=9781108417747 |quote=...the renowned Muslim dynasty claimed Quraysh origins, and consequently from the same tribe as the Prophet Muhammad, but was otherwise almost entirely undistinguished and parvenu... |access-date=30 October 2023 |archive-date=23 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123030807/https://books.google.com/books?id=uPXvDwAAQBAJ&dq=tipu+sultan+quraysh&pg=PA209 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to this tradition, his ancestors were [[Nawayath|Nawayath Arab]]  from [[Quraysh]] tribe,<ref name=brittle>{{Cite book |last=Brittlebank |first=Kate |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1F9jEAAAQBAJ&dq=tipu+ancestry+arab&pg=PT16 |title=Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan |date=9 March 2022 |publisher=Claritas Books |isbn=9781905837878 |language=en |quote=Tipu's ancestry was predominantly Arab, specifically Navayat |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-date=21 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621045137/https://books.google.com/books?id=1F9jEAAAQBAJ&dq=tipu+ancestry+arab&pg=PT16 |url-status=live }}</ref> who arrived in India through sea-route and later came to South India from [[Delhi]] during the reign of [[Mohammed Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur|Muhammad Adil Shah]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hasan |first=Mohibbul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkbJ6xA1_jEC&dq=tipu+sultan+ancestry&pg=PA1 |title=History of Tipu Sultan |date=2005 |publisher=Aakar Books |isbn=978-81-87879-57-2 |language=en |page=3 |quote=...his ancestors arrived in India through sea, instead of following usual land route through northwest...came to Gulbarga from Delhi with his son Muhammad Ali during the reign of Muhammad Adil Shah. |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=13 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313123129/https://books.google.com/books?id=hkbJ6xA1_jEC&dq=tipu+sultan+ancestry&pg=PA1 |url-status=live }}</ref> or were settled in [[Punjab]], before moving to South India.<ref name=nadwi>{{Cite book|last1=Nadvi|first1=Muhammad Ilyas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gB1uAAAAMAAJ&q=arab+Punjab|title=Tipu Sultan, A life History|year=2004|language=en|pages=29–30|quote=As per the research conducted by the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Tipu belonged to the Arab race, more particularly the Quraish clan. On the contrary, Mahmood with reference to an English historian, Willex has written that his forefathers had links with Punjab. In this respect, many historians call him Punjabi too.|access-date=26 August 2023|archive-date=8 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708133801/https://books.google.com/books?id=gB1uAAAAMAAJ&q=arab+Punjab|url-status=live}}</ref> According to another school of historians, Hyder Ali was of [[Punjabi Muslim|Punjabi]] origin,<ref name=nadwi/> and was a Punjabi adventurer in the army of Mysore.{{sfn|Olson|Shadle|1996|loc=p. 773: Hyder Ali was originally a Punjabi adventurer in the army of the Hindu king of Mysore}} The contemporary [[British Raj]] sources of Hyder Ali describe him as a Punjabi.{{sfn|Dalrymple|2019|loc=p. 264: The second power was a new force, which in the 1770s was just emerging and beginning to flex its military muscles: the Mysore Sultanate of Haidar Ali and his formidable warrior son, Tipu Sultan. Haidar, who was of Punjabi origin, had risen in the ranks of the Mysore army, where he introduced many of the innovations he had learned from observing French troops at work in the Carnatic Wars}}{{sfn|Moon|1989|loc=p. 137: Haidar Ali, a Punjabi by origin and unable to read or write, had risen from the ranks in the Mysore army to the position of Commander-in-Chief and had then made himself complete master of this Hindu kingdom}}{{sfn|Gott|2022|loc=p. 47: Haidar Ali was an illiterate Punjabi who rose from the ranks of the Mysore army to become its commander}}