Posted by Dr. Gopal Unnikrishna Kurup
Tipu Sultan the Tyrant King :-E
Most historians will vouch for the fact that viewed from any angle Tipu was a tyrant. His great ambition was to become an emperor of India from his relatively small-time position of being just a king of the principality of Mysore. He then wanted to convert Hindustan into an Islamic empire. His fight against the British was a part of this design and not out of any patriotism. For that purpose,he is said to have even consulted Brahman astrologers and thanthrics and then faithfully carried out all the rituals prescribed by them in Sree Ranganatha Swami Temple which fact leading some historians to see him as secular.
Historian Lewis B. Boury had described Tipu’s violence against Hindus in and around Malabar as way more ferocious than atrocities committed by Mahmud of Ghazni, Nadir Shah and Alauddin Khalji against Hindus in Hindustan. William Logan has mentioned in the “Malabar Manual” that Thalipparampu and Thrichambaram temples of Chirackal Taluqa, Ponmeri Temple of Badakara, and Thiruvangatu of Tellicherry were among the major temples smashed by Tipu Sultan
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Fra Bartolomeo in “Voyage to East Indies” describe Tipu Sultan’s military operations and portray him as a cruel and intolerant Muslim ruler. On occasions, he converted lots of Hindus into Mohammedans against their will. It is reported that he captured over one thousand Hindus in Coorg, forcibly converted them to Islam, and imprisoned them in the Sreerangapatanam fortress. All Coorgi Hindu prisoners successfully escaped during the last battle between the British and Tipu Sultan. So you understand the immense feeling of resentment and consequent protest against the official celebration of Tipu's Jayanti in Coorg.
Report by Colonel Fullarton, the then in-charge of British forces in Mangalore, Tipu Sultan committed the worst possible brutalities on Brahmans during his acquisition of Palghat Fort in the year 1783. His soldiers scared Hindus by exposing the heads of all innocent Brahmans that were brutally killed by them from the fort Zamorin. The Zamorin then decided to abandon the fort, so that he and his Hindu followers didn’t have to witness more such brutalities.
Muslim historians such as Kirmani, and Ghulam Muhammad, Tipu Sultan’s own son, revealed numerous shocking facts and realities associated with Tipu Sultan in their writings. Since he wanted to give most things around him a Muslim touch, he got several Hindu names of places replaced with Muslim names.
For example, Mangalore or Mangalapuri was changed to Jalalabad, Mysore to Nazarabad, Bepur to Sultanpatanam, Cannanore to Kusanabad, Gooty to Faiz-Hissar, Dharwar to Quarshed-Sawad, Dindigul to Khaliqabad, Ratnagiri to Mustafabad, Kozhikode to Islamabad, and Dindigul to Khaliqabad. The local residents of all these places could revert to old names only after Tipu Sultan’s death!
If a section of Karnataka Muslims consider Tipu Sultan as a role model king and thereby they had got immense sense of power during his regime and want to celebrate its memory, this land being extremely tolerant, will have no objection. I understand that they have been doing this quietly for some years. But the moment the government confers official sponsorship and patronage to such sectarian expressions which run counter to the common milieu then then it becomes a fissiperous issue and acquire communal and contentious overtones.. By this act of minority appeasement for which the Congress is notorious to which even in this late hour they cling desperately hoping that it may bring some redemption to them from their abysmal political predicament they are not only clueless how to go about it, but also in the process, doing incalculable harm to the secular fabric of this country.
Most historians will vouch for the fact that viewed from any angle Tipu was a tyrant. His great ambition was to become an emperor of India from his relatively small-time position of being just a king of the principality of Mysore. He then wanted to convert Hindustan into an Islamic empire. His fight against the British was a part of this design and not out of any patriotism. For that purpose,he is said to have even consulted Brahman astrologers and thanthrics and then faithfully carried out all the rituals prescribed by them in Sree Ranganatha Swami Temple which fact leading some historians to see him as secular.
Historian Lewis B. Boury had described Tipu’s violence against Hindus in and around Malabar as way more ferocious than atrocities committed by Mahmud of Ghazni, Nadir Shah and Alauddin Khalji against Hindus in Hindustan. William Logan has mentioned in the “Malabar Manual” that Thalipparampu and Thrichambaram temples of Chirackal Taluqa, Ponmeri Temple of Badakara, and Thiruvangatu of Tellicherry were among the major temples smashed by Tipu Sultan
.
Fra Bartolomeo in “Voyage to East Indies” describe Tipu Sultan’s military operations and portray him as a cruel and intolerant Muslim ruler. On occasions, he converted lots of Hindus into Mohammedans against their will. It is reported that he captured over one thousand Hindus in Coorg, forcibly converted them to Islam, and imprisoned them in the Sreerangapatanam fortress. All Coorgi Hindu prisoners successfully escaped during the last battle between the British and Tipu Sultan. So you understand the immense feeling of resentment and consequent protest against the official celebration of Tipu's Jayanti in Coorg.
Report by Colonel Fullarton, the then in-charge of British forces in Mangalore, Tipu Sultan committed the worst possible brutalities on Brahmans during his acquisition of Palghat Fort in the year 1783. His soldiers scared Hindus by exposing the heads of all innocent Brahmans that were brutally killed by them from the fort Zamorin. The Zamorin then decided to abandon the fort, so that he and his Hindu followers didn’t have to witness more such brutalities.
Muslim historians such as Kirmani, and Ghulam Muhammad, Tipu Sultan’s own son, revealed numerous shocking facts and realities associated with Tipu Sultan in their writings. Since he wanted to give most things around him a Muslim touch, he got several Hindu names of places replaced with Muslim names.
For example, Mangalore or Mangalapuri was changed to Jalalabad, Mysore to Nazarabad, Bepur to Sultanpatanam, Cannanore to Kusanabad, Gooty to Faiz-Hissar, Dharwar to Quarshed-Sawad, Dindigul to Khaliqabad, Ratnagiri to Mustafabad, Kozhikode to Islamabad, and Dindigul to Khaliqabad. The local residents of all these places could revert to old names only after Tipu Sultan’s death!
If a section of Karnataka Muslims consider Tipu Sultan as a role model king and thereby they had got immense sense of power during his regime and want to celebrate its memory, this land being extremely tolerant, will have no objection. I understand that they have been doing this quietly for some years. But the moment the government confers official sponsorship and patronage to such sectarian expressions which run counter to the common milieu then then it becomes a fissiperous issue and acquire communal and contentious overtones.. By this act of minority appeasement for which the Congress is notorious to which even in this late hour they cling desperately hoping that it may bring some redemption to them from their abysmal political predicament they are not only clueless how to go about it, but also in the process, doing incalculable harm to the secular fabric of this country.
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