 The earliest manuscript offering clues to governance and military conflict in the pre @-@ 1760 Mysore , seems to be Dias ( Dias 1725 ) , an annual letter written in Portuguese by a Mysore @-@ based Jesuit missionary , Joachim Dias , and addressed to his Provincial superior . After the East India Company 's final 1799 victory over Tipu Sultan , official Company records began to be published as well ; these include East India Company 1800 , a collection of Anglo @-@ Mysore Wars @-@ related correspondence between the Company 's officials in India and Court of Directors in London , and Wilks 1805 , the first report on the new Princely State of Mysore by its resident , Mark Wilks . Around this time , French accounts of the Anglo @-@ Mysore wars appeared as well , and included Michaud 1809 , a history of the wars by Joseph @-@ François Michaud , another Jesuit priest . The first attempt at including a comprehensive history of Mysore in an English language work is Buchanan 1807 , an account of a survey of South India conducted at Lord Richard Wellesley 's request , by Francis Buchanan , a Scottish physician and geographer . By the end of the period of British <unk> of Mysore ( 1831 – 1881 ) , many English language works had begun to appear on a variety of Mysore @-@ related subjects . These included Rice 1879 , a book of English translations of Kannada language inscriptions , and Digby 1878 , William Digby 's two volume critique of British famine policy during the Great Famine of 1876 – 78 , which devastated Mysore for years to come . 
