Family
Details are sketchy on Hyder's personal life. Biographer Lewin Bowring describes him as "a man of the loosest morals, never spared anyone of the sex who had the misfortune to attract his attention." He had at least two wives. His second wife was Fakhr-un-nissa, the mother of Tipu, his brother Karim, and a daughter. He may have also married the sister of Abdul Hakim Khan, the nawab of Savanur; Bowring describes it as a marriage, but Punganuri Rao's translator, citing Wilks, claims this was a "concubine marriage". Karim and the daughter were both married to Abdul Hakim's children to cement an alliance in 1779.
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