![[Mysore]](../images/i/in-mysor.gif)
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Blas Delgado Ortiz Source: Ziggiotto (1998).
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image by
Blas Delgado Ortiz
Source: Ziggiotto (1998).
Mysore - or (since 1973) Karnataka, State, S India; capital Bangalore; 74,037 square miles. Title: Maharajah.
Jarig Bakker, 12 November 1998
The flag of Mysore was red over brown with arms in the centre. The image above, without arms, is incorrect and this
flag was never official. The colours of the flag are defined in French as "rouge brique sur brun" [brick red and brown]. As far as I know the brown is a light maroon (perhaps like the golden shown in
Neubecker (1992)) and I speculate that the flag can in fact be red over golden. Remember that some months ago Nozomi Kariyasu travelled to Bangalore (capital of Mysore/Karnataka and he saw many red over yellow flags.
Jaume Ollé, 21 August 2000
Brun is brown, so I would say maroon rather than golden.
Olivier Touzeau, 22 August 2000
![[Mysore]](../images/i/in-mysore.gif)
image by Sarvagnya, located by Pete Loeser, 8 June 2014
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GBerunda.JPG
The Indian city of Mysore has a rather unusual emblem on its arms and flag
with a two-headed bird - see
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/mysore.gif.
James Dignan, 8 June
2014
I found that the "double ducks" are actually from "medieval" city of
Karnataka. It is the Gandaberunda emblem found in the Mysore Palace and now the
official emblem of the Karnataka state in India.
Sources: Political
History of Medieval Kamataka (
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Political_history_of_medieval_Karnataka?qsrc=3044)
and (http://www.ask.com/wiki/Political_history_of_medieval_Karnataka?qsrc=3044)
Pete Loeser, 8 June 2014
Wikipedia's image of the flag is described by Jaumé Ollé is included on
FOTW. Here's a variant featuring
Richard's flag (#17-41a) plus the coat-of-arms in
the middle, which takes us back to this image,
featured on the subsection "Variant flag", by Sarvagnya, located by Pete Loeser,
8 June 2014, which was clearly meant to be as a recreation of the flag, only in
different color scheme to Roberts. This same flag is referred to by this
website as
the State flag.
Esteban Rivera, 23 December 2017
![[Mysore]](../images/i/in_myso1.gif)
image by
Blas Delgado Ortiz
This is the old flag of the Tippu's navy of Mysore (in use c.1784-1799),
white with a red border, with five red disks, one in the center, the others in
the four corners. Source: Ziggioto (1998)
Jarig Bakker, 6 May 2002
![[Mysore]](../images/i/in_myso2.gif)
image by
Blas Delgado Ortiz
Blas Delgado Ortíz drew this banner from a scan I previously made from
Ziggioto (1998). This is one of probably many
banners of Tippu Sahib, the Tiger of Mysore (1782-1799).
Jarig Bakker, 31 May 2002
![[Tipu Sultan at Srirangapattanam]](../images/i/in_hyder-tipu.gif)
image from
Richard Sambasivam, 18 December 2017
The flag is actually a real waving flag, as seen here:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8353/8328440031_8595a7c0ba_b.jpg (source:
flickr.com).
Picture caption reads: "Tomb of Tipu Sultan at Srirangapattanam, Mysore, India.
Srirangapatna, the historical town of India, located near Mysore city, has many
important tourism and historical sites. Gumbaz, the tombs of Tipu Sultan and
Hyder Ali is one of the most important tourist site in Srirangapatna. Tipu
Sultan, the tiger of Mysore, the great warrior who fought with the British
empire, built Gumbaz in the midst of Lal Bagh, a beautiful garden. He built
tombs for his father Hyder Ali and mother Fathima Begam (Fakr-Un-Nisa) in Gumbaz.
The structure is very beautiful standing on a high and wide platform with an
open verandah of polished pillars all round. The highlight of the Gumbaz
structure are well shaped large dome, ivory inlaid doors, and carved stone
windows of fine workmanship. The chamber is painted with the tiger stripes. The
flag that represented his kingdom, adorns the front part of the mausoleum."
Here's another image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Gumbaz.jpg (source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan). Picture caption reads: "The
mausoleum housing Tipu's tomb is another example of Islamic architecture. Tipu's
flag is in the foreground."
And here's a better image, with a clearer
inscription of the emblem in the middle:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/192/491645588_b1f604398d_b.jpg (source:
flickr.com)
Esteban Rivera, 23 December 2017
