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Karnataka: Tipu Sultan's birthday bash divides opinion
by Guest Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:11 pm
MYSURU: The Karnataka government's move to celebrate Mysuru warrior Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary as an official event across Karnataka on November 10 has ruffled the BJP and right-wing groups. They've opposed the government's move to celebrate the event in a grand manner, terming the ruler as anti-national....
With less than a week for the function, rightw i n g groups have gone into a huddle deliberating ways to oppose. BJP legislator from Mysuru, Go Madhusudan, is against setting up of a Tipu varsity, claiming that Tipu had offered support to Afghan ruler Ahmed Khan Abdali in waging war against India. "This shows he was an antinational and doesn't deserve to be venerated," he said.
Historian Talakadu Chikkarange Gowda debunks theories that the ruler killed Hindus for refusing to convert to Islam. "In 1781, Peshwa Parasuram Bahu pillaged Sringeri Shankaracharya's mutt. It was Tipu who came to the mutt's rescue. Do rightwingers know that Chhatrapati Shivaji was betrayed by his own Peshwas," he asked. He also pointed to temples in the vicinity of Tipu's palaces in Mysuru or Bengaluru. "I agree there are lapses on his part. But one mistake should be overlooked for the 99 other welfare measures he brought in,'' he added. Barkur Udaya, assistant professor, department of history, Mangalore University, said the anti-Tipu brigade is only reiterating Britishers' view of him as a traitor.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tipu-Sultans-bday-bash-divides-opinion/articleshow/49696748.cms
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just so we are clear when Ahmed Shah Abdali invaded India for the first time, in 1748, Tipu was 8 years old.
With less than a week for the function, rightw i n g groups have gone into a huddle deliberating ways to oppose. BJP legislator from Mysuru, Go Madhusudan, is against setting up of a Tipu varsity, claiming that Tipu had offered support to Afghan ruler Ahmed Khan Abdali in waging war against India. "This shows he was an antinational and doesn't deserve to be venerated," he said.
Historian Talakadu Chikkarange Gowda debunks theories that the ruler killed Hindus for refusing to convert to Islam. "In 1781, Peshwa Parasuram Bahu pillaged Sringeri Shankaracharya's mutt. It was Tipu who came to the mutt's rescue. Do rightwingers know that Chhatrapati Shivaji was betrayed by his own Peshwas," he asked. He also pointed to temples in the vicinity of Tipu's palaces in Mysuru or Bengaluru. "I agree there are lapses on his part. But one mistake should be overlooked for the 99 other welfare measures he brought in,'' he added. Barkur Udaya, assistant professor, department of history, Mangalore University, said the anti-Tipu brigade is only reiterating Britishers' view of him as a traitor.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tipu-Sultans-bday-bash-divides-opinion/articleshow/49696748.cms
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just so we are clear when Ahmed Shah Abdali invaded India for the first time, in 1748, Tipu was 8 years old.
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