Editing Hyder Ali (section)

==Arab, Persian and Turkish relations==

When Hyder took over the Malabar territories, he took advantage of the coastal access to develop relations with trading partners overseas. To this end he established port tariffs that were biased against European traders and preferential for Mysorean and Arab traders. Beginning in 1770 he sent ambassadors to [[Abu Hilal Ahmad bin Said]] in [[Muscat, Oman|Muscat]] and [[Karim Khan]] in [[Shiraz]], then the capital of [[Persia]], seeking military and economic alliances.

In a 1774 embassy to [[Karim Khan]], the ruler of Persia, he sought to establish a trading post on the [[Persian Gulf]].{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Karim responded by offering [[Bandar Abbas]], but nothing further seems to have passed between them on the subject.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Karim Khan later did send 1,000 troops to Mysore in 1776 in response to another embassy in 1775.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

Nursullah Khan, Hyder's ambassador, had more success in Muscat, where a trading house was established in 1776.

During the final years of his reign Hyder Ali also planned to send an embassy to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Sultan [[Mustafa III]], but it was his son Tipu Sultan who succeeded in making direct contact with [[Istanbul]].<ref>Hasan, pp. 1–14</ref>