He is far from being a forgotten story. One of the prominent candidates in an election long gone by campaigned on the sole plank of having retrieved the hero's sword from the looted remnants of that last battle in the breach of the wall of Seringapatnam. He won by a landslide, without delivering a single speech.
In the last ten years, the most amazing phenomenon I have witnessed has been the ability of gullible Pakistanis to manufacture a story on their own, out of whole cloth, hypnotise themselves into forgetting that they had just then invented it, and then waging holy war to defend its eternal truth. About two-thirds of the crowd do that, all the time, including right now in the present. Look around you. The others are embarrassed, shame-faced and apologetic when the jumping up and down and throwing of poo at the enemy is going on; unfortunately, since we have a considerable stock of chimpanzees of our own, we find ourselves begging them to offer us some sympathy. Our idiots, we both sides think, are bigger idiots than your idiots. Both are right, of course.
When given half a chance, very decent discussions ensue. Decent discussions might also be possible on sensitive subjects like military history, especially military history of India-Pakistan encounters. There is a shining example right in front of you. At the end of the day, some of you are incapable of responding to such opportunities; you lack the emotional capacity, the rational capacity, and the ability to see both sides to a question.
Don't for a moment think you are admired, or grudgingly respected, or feared. The brutal reality, real for both sides, is quite different. You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.