The Daria Daulat Palace is  located amidst the Daria Daulat Bagh houses the Tipu Sultan Museum. Built in the year 1784, the structure is in Indo-Islamic style. Constructed mostly of teakwood, the building is rectangular and stands on a raised platform.  It is located in Srirangapatna town in Mandya district, near Mysore, Karnataka.

Open corridors run along its four sides with wooden pillars at the edges of the plinth. While the western and eastern wings have walls the other tow wings have recessed bays with pillars supporting the roof so that the upper two fairly large audience halls.

The Construction 

There are four stair-cases which are inconspicuous, built in the four partition walls that divide the audience hall into four rooms at four corners with a central hall connecting the eastern and western corridors.

Islamic-style Paintings on the walls

The most striking feature of this building is that every inch if space on the walls, pillars, canopies and arches is painted colorfully and artistically, while the outer walls of the palace confine to battle scenes and portrait paintings, the interior walls are decorated with scrolls of thin foliage and floral pattern. The wooden ceilings are pasted with canvas painted over with floral designs.

History of Srirangapatna depicted  in the paintings

The paintings on the western wall emphasize the glorious victory achieved by Hyder and Tipu over the English contingent led by Col Bailee in the battle at Pollilur near Kanchipuram in 1780. The top panel shows the Nizam of Hyderabad with his horsemen and elephants arriving near the battlefield too late to be of any help to their allies, the English. 

The Eastern Wall paintings

The eastern wall contains many portrait paintings in five rows representing the scenes of Durbars of various contemporary rulers of Tipu and among them mention may be made of the Hindu Rani of Chitor, the Raja of Tanjore, the Raja of Banaras, Balaji Rao II Peshwa, Magadi Kempegowda and Madakari Nayaka of Chitradurga and of Krishna Raja Wodeyar II. 

The “Storming of Srirangapattanam”, an oil painting by Sir Robert Ker Porter in 1800 is one of the great historical paintings depicting the final capture of Srirangapatna on 4th May 1799.

The Palace is open from 9 am to 5 pm. This place can be reached by local bus or auto.

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