{"id":22514,"date":"2018-11-14T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=22514"},"modified":"2021-07-26T18:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:27:46","slug":"not-tipu-sultan-not-tippu-tip-either-who-is-the-person-in-the-viral-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/not-tipu-sultan-not-tippu-tip-either-who-is-the-person-in-the-viral-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Tipu Sultan. Not Tippu Tip either. Who is the person in the viral image?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few years, history enthusiasts and admirers as well as critics of Tipu Sultan, the last Sultan of the kingdom of Mysore, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/263603275217331\/posts\/343669573877367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">circulated a picture<\/a> on social media claiming that it is a photograph of Tipu Sultan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99202 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/59bccf5d-8410-4323-99a2-efd4cd14ffb1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/59bccf5d-8410-4323-99a2-efd4cd14ffb1.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/59bccf5d-8410-4323-99a2-efd4cd14ffb1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The image has been shared on both Facebook and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maheshyagyasain\/status\/1419236194110492676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. Alt News has also received verification requests on its WhatsApp helpline number (76000 11160).<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22514 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/not-tipu-sultan-not-tippu-tip-either-who-is-the-person-in-the-viral-image\/8dfeb0f2-a5c1-45dd-a783-668f4a817280\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"689\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/8dfeb0f2-a5c1-45dd-a783-668f4a817280.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/8dfeb0f2-a5c1-45dd-a783-668f4a817280.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/8dfeb0f2-a5c1-45dd-a783-668f4a817280-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/not-tipu-sultan-not-tippu-tip-either-who-is-the-person-in-the-viral-image\/screen-shot-2021-07-26-at-8-56-01-am\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-8.56.01-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-8.56.01-AM.png 618w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-8.56.01-AM-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>BJP spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AshwiniBJP\/status\/1061226170098896896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashwini Upadhyay<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ramesh_Mendola\/status\/1061274500522635265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramesh Mendola<\/a>, BJP MLA from Indore, had also promoted the claim in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01-885x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01-885x1024.jpg 885w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01-768x889.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01-696x806.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01-1068x1236.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01-363x420.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181114-131023_01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The image was again posted on Twitter in October 2019 by a user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mahesh10816\/status\/1189574997443891200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madhav<\/a>, who is followed on the platform by PM Modi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TipuSultan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TipuSultan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is how the congress ecosystem projected the scum called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TipuSultan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TipuSultan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UxD1DTTlBK\">pic.twitter.com\/UxD1DTTlBK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madhav \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@mahesh10816) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mahesh10816\/status\/1189574997443891200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same picture was revived in November 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">But the real <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TipuSultan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TipuSultan<\/a> doesnt look like a tiger though. He looks like.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JiDdqvevs7\">pic.twitter.com\/JiDdqvevs7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ajnin (@Ajnin8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ajnin8\/status\/1329616763336593412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>Multiple news organisations and fact-checking outlets had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelallantop.com\/jhamajham\/bjp-spokesperson-tweets-fake-photo-of-tipu-sultan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">checked<\/a> this viral claim, some of whom <a href=\"http:\/\/smhoaxslayer.com\/%E2%80%8Bhistory-rewritten-by-fakenews-is-that-real-photo-of-tipu-sultan-did-he-time-travel-to-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concluded<\/a> that the person in the picture is not Tipu Sultan but Tippu Tip (or Tippu Tib), a slave trader from Tanzania of the 19th century. The first-ever photograph was clicked in 1826 or 1827 and thus, this picture is not a photograph of Tipu Sultan who died in the year 1799 CE.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22527\" style=\"width: 866px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22527\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty6.jpg 866w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty6-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty6-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty6-696x411.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty6-710x420.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: SMHoaxSlayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The same image is also featured on the website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/news-photo\/tippu-tib-also-known-as-hamed-bin-mohammed-was-the-most-news-photo\/524327796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty Images<\/a>, a stock photography website. According to Getty Images, he is\u00a0Tippu Tib, also known as Hamed bin Mohammed, who was the most successful Swahili-Arab slave trader in Zanzibar.\u00a0The photograph has been clicked by Bojan Brecelj.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty.jpg 977w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty-706x420.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With multiple information outlets stating that this person in the picture is a trader from Zanzibar, Tanzania named Tippu Tip, the matter should end there, except for the fact that there are numerous pictures of Tippu Tib which do not match with above picture claimed to be of him. In fact, another picture posted on the website of Getty Images\u00a0featuring Tippu shows a person markedly different from the person in the above image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"873\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty2.jpg 873w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty2-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty2-696x453.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_getty2-646x420.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Juxtaposing the two pictures, it can be seen that there are visible differences in the facial features of the two persons. The person on the left has a long, narrow and slender nose, compared to the person on the right whose nose is widely shaped.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22523\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_juxta.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_juxta.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_juxta-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_juxta-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_juxta-696x557.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tippu_juxta-525x420.jpeg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Twitter, Alt News came across a tweet that had posted an article fact-checking the claim about the picture. This tweet mentioned that the person seen in the picture is not Tippu Tip but Mohammed Bin Khalfan, commonly known as Rumaliza, another prominent slave trader of Zanzibar of the 19th century.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ta\">\u0b87\u0bb5\u0bc8\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b92\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bc8 \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe<br \/>\n\u0bae\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0baa\u0b9f\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b87\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd Mohammed bin Hassan Rumaliza<br \/>\n\u0b85\u0b9f\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bbf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M0F0dSdxPD\">pic.twitter.com\/M0F0dSdxPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0b95\u0bb5\u0bbf \u0ba4\u0bbe (@kavitha129) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kavitha129\/status\/1060825269890539521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We searched for &#8216;Rumaliza&#8217; online and came across a slew of pictures featuring him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/rumaliza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/rumaliza.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/rumaliza-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/rumaliza-291x420.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We noticed that this person closely resembles the picture of the person believed to be Tippu Tip. We placed the picture of Rumaliza next to this image, and the resemblance is striking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ruma_juxta.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ruma_juxta.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ruma_juxta-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ruma_juxta-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ruma_juxta-696x557.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ruma_juxta-525x420.jpeg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The facial features are nearly identical. The nose is long and slender, and the ears are peculiarly shaped.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2. The robe worn by the persons in both pictures has the same design.<\/p>\n<p>3. The dagger which can be seen tucked inside the robe in both pictures is identical.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the picture, circulated aggressively by social media users claiming it represents Tipu Sultan, is not the picture of Tippu Tip either, as inferred by media outlets. The picture instead closely resembles Rumaliza, another slave trader of Zanzibar, Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few years, history enthusiasts and admirers as well as critics of Tipu Sultan, the last Sultan of the kingdom of Mysore, have circulated a picture on social media claiming that it is a photograph of Tipu Sultan. The image has been shared on both Facebook and Twitter. Alt News has also received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-22514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Not Tipu Sultan. Not Tippu Tip either. Who is the person in the viral image? - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not Tipu Sultan. 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