Tippu described aptly...

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:46 pm

...by Subramaniam Swamy.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Sat Nov 14, 2015 7:03 pm

One of the comments on the Tipu period:

Evidence of Tipu's deeds in Coorg comes from within his own court. Tipu's biographer and courtier Mir Hussein Kirmani wrote about Tipu's exploits in Coorg in his 'The History of Tipu Sultan', "The conquering Sultan dispatched his Amirs and Khans with large bodies of troops to punish those idolaters and reduce the whole country (Coorg) to subjection. They attacked and destroyed many towns. Eight thousand men, women, and children were taken as prisoners. They were collected in an immense crowd like a flock of sheep or herd of bullocks."

In a letter to the Nawab of Kurnool, Tipu claims he took 40,000 Coorgs as prisoners and forcibly converted them to Islam and incorporated them into his Ahmadi corps. Many of the descendants of Tipu's converted Coorgs still retain their original Coorg family names.

Tipu also went about destroying temples in Coorg. To protect the Omkareshwara temple in Mercara, residents of the town knocked down its towers and replaced them with domes. The temple retains the domes even today, striking testimony that has survived over the ages. According to the Mysore Gazetteer of the time, when Tipu was finally vanquished, only two temples in his kingdom performed daily pujas. The Gazetteer estimates that Tipu destroyed around eight thousand temples in South India.　

If Tipu's actions in Coorg were questionable, his actions in Malabar were said to be worse. Portuguese missionary Father Bartholomew wrote in his book, Voyage to East Indies, "Women and children were hanged in Calicut, first mothers were hanged and their children tied to necks of mothers. That barbarian Tipu Sultan tied naked Christians and Hindus to the legs of elephants and made the elephants to move around till the bodies of the helpless victims were torn to pieces."

After the pillage of Calicut, Tipu wrote to his generals: "Almost all Hindus in Calicut are converted to Islam. Only on the borders of Cochin State a few are still not converted. I am determined to convert them also very soon. I consider this as Jihad to achieve that object."

Tippu described aptly...

Tippu described aptly...

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