Tipu Sultan’s ‘Real’ Photo going viral on social media is Real or Not

It seems the former Mysore ruler time travelled to the future to get clicked.

The post first surfaced in 2015 after which it was shared by many on different platforms.

Some took a dig at the Congress party and claimed the “real” image of the ruler in black-and-white is available at a British museum. Others said history schoolbooks have been manipulated by the party

WHAT’S THE TRUTH?

This would’ve been true if Tipu could time travel into the future much after his death on 4 May 1799 to get photographed, because the earliest photo ever taken dates back to 1826 or 1827.

The first ever photo was clicked by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, where he captured the view from a window at his French estate.

Meanwhile, a reverse image search reveals that this black-and-white photo is one of Tippu Tib, or Tippu Tib – real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi – who was a Swahili-Zanzibari slave trader, ivory trader, explorer, plantation owner and governor.

A simple reverse image search reveals that the photo is of Tippu Tib, a Swahili–Zanzibari slave trader.

This fake image was also called out by Social Media Hoax Slayer in June 2017, but is still being circulated unabashedly.

However, an Alt News report claimed that the image, in fact, was not even of Tippu Tip but of Mohammed Bin Khalfan, commonly known as Rumaliza, another prominent slave trader of 6Zanzibar of the 19th century.

The report said that Rumaliza has a striking resemblance to Tippu Tip.