Who was the pioneer of sericulture, sugar, sandalwood, paper industry, toy industry, arms & armaments & ship building in India?
A large number of workshops were set up by Tipu Sultan which manufactured guns, muskets, glass, cannon, paper, cutlery, cloth, sugar, and a host of other articles. For sericulture cutlery and sandalwood he had experts from China to setup related industries. It was his dream to keep Mysore in the vanguard of ship-building industry.