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All neutral sources indicate him being a rabid mad mullah who converted Hindus and Christians by force. And that pig of an Islamist invited Zaman shah to invade India to kill "kaffirs , the worshipper of many god, the followers of false religion" and to wage a "holy jihad against infidels and free the region of hindustan" - Extracts from letter written by Tipu sultan to Zaman shah and Caliph.
Entire wealth for every temple was confiscated by mad mullah Tipu before 1790. Only two temples in whole of Tipu's kingdom were having daily pujas and that too because Brahmin astrologers of those two temples use to read Tipu's horoscope.
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Tipu destroyed at least three Hindu temples: the Harihareswara temple at Harihar, the Varahaswami temple at Srirangapatnam, and the Odakaraya temple at Hospet. In the Tamil land and in Malabar, he earned the sobriquet of “a Brahman-killer and a despoiler of south Indian temples” (
Brittlebank, 1997, pp. 125-126; see also
Logan, 1887/2000, p. 449).
His forced conversion, circumcision, and merciless massacre of the Hindus and Christians in Malabar have been graphically described by the Portuguese traveler Fra Paolino da San Bartolomeo (1748-1806; Bartolomeo, 1800). Roderick Mackenzie (1793) commented on Tipu’s march to Trinomaly and his mayhem there in 1790: Here neither respect, for the grandeur and antiquity of their temples, nor veneration for the sacred rites of a religion whose origin no time records, proved any protection for the persons or property, even of the first Brahmins. Their pagodas, breached with sacrilegious cannon, were forcibly entered, their altars defiled, their valuables seized, their dwellings reduced to ashes, and the devastation was rendered still more horrible by the scattered remains of men, women and children, mangled beneath a murderous sword. (Vol. 1, p. 203)
Tipu Sultan’s ceremonial sword bears an unabashed admission inscribed on it:
“My victorious sabre is lightning for the destruction of the unbelievers.” He publicly claimed himself to be a descendant of Muhammad and his avowed aim was
“to restore the religion of that prophet by destroying or proselytizing all heathens and infidels.” At the center of his personal seal that validated all his public dispatches the Arabic inscription reads:
“I am the messenger of the true faith;” around the edge of the seal a couplet in Persian reads: “From conquest, and the protection of the Royal Hyder, comes my title of Sultan; and the world, as under the sun and moon, subject to my signet” (
Dirom, 1794, p. 251)
His own writings (
Sultan-ut-Tawarikh and
Tarikh-I-Khudadadi) speak eloquently of his religious fanaticism (
Sharma, 1991, p. 109, inscription on Tipu’s sword cited on p. 118). He even dreamed of either converting or conquering the infidel (M.
Husain, 1957, 64 # 13, p. 67 # 17)
As a contemporary estimate has it, a dark and intolerant bigotry excluded from Tippoo’s choice all but the true believers; and unlimited persecution united in detestation of his rule every Hindoo in his dominions. In the Hindoos no degree of merit was a passport to favour; in the Mussulman no crime could ensure displeasure. (
Wilks, 1810-1817/1869, Vol. 2, p. 383)
Tipu expressed in his letter of February 16, 1799, to the Grand Seignior of Constantinople for the latter’s desire, "for the sake of the whole body of the faith and religious brotherhood, to afford assistance to our Brethren Mussulmans; support our holy theology and not withhold my [Tipu’s] power and endeavours in defending the region of Hindustan from the machinations and evils of these enemies [the English and the French Christians]." (
Kausar, 1980, p. 268)
He invited Zaman Shah to attack the Mughal capital of Delhi because the Emperor Shah Alam had “reduced the faith to . . . weakness” (he had become a pensioner of the powerful Maratha leader of Gwalior, Mahadji Shinde, ca. 1730-1794) and the letter of invitation concluded with a report how near a hundred thousand followers of the faith, nay more, assembled every Friday, the
Sabbath of the Mussulmans, in the two mosques of the capital, better known as the Aulah and the Asqa mosques, and after the prescribed form of prayers, supplicate the Bestower of all things according to the words of the Scripture, “Grant thy aid, O God! To those who aid the religion of Muhammad; and let us be of that number; Destroy those, O God! Who would destroy the religion of Muhammad; and let not us be their number”. (
Kausar, 1980, 141-142)
He boasted his conquest of Calicut in a missive to Syed Abdul Dulai: " With the grace of Prophet Mohammad and Allah, 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 “Jehad” to achieve that object." (cited in
Sharma, 1991, pp. 111-112)
In his letter of February 10, 1799, to the Grand Seignior of Constantinople Tipu claimed that
“near five hundred thousand of the infidels of the district of Calicut, Nuzzuraband, Zufferabaud, and Ashrufabaud . . . have been converted at different times” (
Martin, 1837, p. 30).
In a military manual titled
Fat’hul Mujahidin (
Victory of the Holy Warrior), he also declared a “Holy War . . . against the English,” who were alleged to have “converted many Muslims . . . [and] enslaved many Muslim women and children . . . [and] destroyed Muslim mosques and tombs to build their idol-houses [churches] thereon” (
Habib, 1999, p. xxv).
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Now coming to excuses that seculars provide for their defence of his bigotry:
1. Presence of some Hindus in administration is often presented as a defence against his bigotry. What it completely ignored that while some Hindus were appointed at administrative post due to their administrative acumen, even an illiterate muslim was given preference over a Hindu, if skill of that Hindu were not indispensable.
All Hindu appointees were highly qualified and though all of them were not impeccable and some outright corrupt, as Francis Buchanan (1762-1829) found out, getting rid of the bad apples “was impossible, for no other persons in the country had any knowledge of business” (
Buchanan, 1999, p. 167). However, Tipu appointed even illiterate Muslims as
Asophs [Lord Lieutenants] who were “entirely sunk in indolence, voluptuousness, and ignorance” (
Buchanan, 1999, p. 167).
2. He called Swami Sachidanand Bharti as Jagatguru . What seculars completely ignored is that he called him Jagatguru in a letter in which he implored him to impress upon Marathas to some to his aid. A slick political move.
3. Tipu patronized the temples of Sri Gandeswara and Sri Ranganatha . He did that because of his belief in Astrology. He was engulfed by a sense of Foreboding doom and often resorted to religious rituals and wore apotropaic objects and trinkets—Hindu as well as Islamic—either to avert a disaster or to attain success in his undertakings.
Anyway, Tipu hardly won any war, his father was kicked in his *** by Marathas while he himself was defeated by a small Nair force at the fortification at Nedamkota.
The reason why he is loved is because self hating Indians see his massacres of tens of thousands of people as communist revolution of 18th century, while Muslims in India see his actions as worthy of ghazi.
Even Aurangzeb was not as great ghazi as Tipu if we consider that Tipu ruled over an area which was 10 times smaller than that of Aurangzeb.Tipu is responsible for heavy Islamic presence in Malabar and concentration of Muslim population correlates well with his invasion route and devastation.
Read about Akkaral support to Tipu.The muslims of Kerala openly supported the massacres of Nairs and Namboothiris of Malabar by the hands of tipu's forces.
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@SrNair @levina @MokshaVimukthi @mooppan @nair and other Keralites. Would you shine some more lights on deeds of Ghazi Tipu sultan.This is history of your state and you would be knowing much more about glorious deeds of Islamic Ghazi.
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