External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar released Vikram Sampath’s book Tipu Sultan-The Saga of the Mysore Interregnum in New Delhi on Saturday. Addressing at the launch event, Dr Jaishankar highlighted that the book aptly captures not just the flavour of a fast-moving and complicated era, but offers insights into politics, strategy, administration, sociology and diplomacy. Dr Jaishankar said that Tipu Sultan has a reputation as a key figure who resisted the imposition of British colonial control over India. He said that it is a fact that Tipu Sultan’s defeat and death can be considered a turning point when it came to the fate of Peninsular India.