There are two dominant reasons why the forcefully converted did not revert.
1. Socio economic : those who had converted were given land taken away from the non Muslims who had fled. Reverting would make them lose it. Plus as Muslims they felt safe from future Jihadi invasions. They knew that even as a Muslim one is safe in a Hindu kingdom. Not so as a Hindu in Tipu's one. Plus many Hindus then were far too conservative in certain places...of course this was of little concern where whole villages were converted by sword.
2. This is more fundamental. Reverting from Islam carries the death penalty. It's a very convenient and strong deterrent. Even after Tipu's fall there were enough loyalists who made sure that anybody dreaming of leaving Islam could be put to death.
This method had been perfected by champions of the RoP for centuries. The mallus, brave though they were, stood no chance. But still they survived albeit in part.
Still, many did revert to their parent faith.
Very true. The Muslims in Karnataka are staunch fans of Tipu. They had it all. They had the power to kill, convert, rape as they pleased...which they did. After Tipu, they did not. The non Muslims learnt this lesson by heart. It stays till today.
You have missed the most important point: The role of collective memories.
When a person converts, effects of his ancestral religion only lingers for a generation of two. After that the progeny becomes follower of purer religion.
Exception to this are groups which maintain their identity separate from Islam (or other religion). Among Indian converts, only Rajputs did it, and Ghar Wapsi/reconversion process has been most successful among them in India. A person who destroys his identity or is made to destroy his identity by forcing a fake arabian surname and origin story become like most of Pakistanis, someone who think that he is purest muslim (an Arab, a Turk, or a Persian) even though the people he is trying to associate with piss on him. It become a kind of delusional echo chamber. Acknowledging that he is someone who has been forced to convert on swordpoint becomes humiliating to him, hence these tales "my ancestors came with Bin Qasim's army" originate to hide one's wounded pride. OR residual identity could turn one into a Persian, always viscerally hateful of Arabs or purest of pure Muslims. The current Shia-Sunni war is rooted in wounded "Persian identity" , which if had not found expressing in different version of Islam, would have probably expressed itself in Persian leaving Islam for Zorastarianism en mass. Another cause of attachment of Persians with Islam is that ,unlike ours, Islam has genuinely enriched their civilization and completely turning from Islam would mean denouncing most of their civilizational achievement. I would post on this if latter posts, if someone wants detail......Turks never had this problem as they did not had an identity.again details for later if someone wants...
You should understand why missionaries are paying people to convert. If payment for coming to Religion of Love is a life long and cross generation phenomenon, even most well funded missionaries would go bankrupt as each increasing convert would further tax their bribing resources.
The game missionaries are playing is to pay pagans for long enough that they lose their institutional and collective memory of being a Hindu.
People here and elsewhere have repeated asked: How to destroy an idea? This is usually asked when pink libetards ponder upon ways to contain a terrorist organization like IS. The answer is not only very simple but something which has been applied on level of country in life of our great grandfather, and on a continental level a millenia and a millenia and a half ago.
So how do we destroy an ideology?
Simple, destroy all cultural markers of that ideology. Burn all books containing doctrine of that ideology, and prohibit practice of that ideology on pain of death.
Continental level destruction has been achieved mostly by religions.
Christian Roman Emprorers Gratian, Valentine II, and Theodosius I ,under influence of Saint Ambriose, destroyerd each and every Pagan Temple in whole of roman Empire, made practice of Paganism punishable by death, stopped Olympic games, and seized wealth of all Pagans in kingdom.
This not only destroyed Paganism in a couple of generation to such an extent that today there is practically no ancient book surviving on Pagan practice making it impossible to resurrect, even if someone wants to (this was aim of Church); It also pushed Europe into a 800 year long "dark age" due to destruction of most of knowledge in Paganic purge. Rome in early CE era knew how to make whole cities using concrete, but that knowledge was lost and concrete did not appeared on scene until mid 18th century.
The idea here on which Church worked was that if you destroy all temples, and burn every book that is there , and make practice of paganism punishable by death; Pagans would lose their institutional memory.
On should read the classical six volume series of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written by English historian Edward Gibbon in 1776.
This was repeated in Spain or Al-Andalusia.
Muslims too did this, but on a much smaller scale than Christians. For most part of per-modern history, Islam has been more tolerant than Christianity.
In recent times, it has been done by Soviet union. Soviet union by adopting same techniques as Theodosius I tamed CAR muslims making them docile , borderline atheist Soviet muslims; or China which did same with Hui muslims.
Also google Hugenots and their massacre done by Catholics in Paris.
I must say that Europeans are Gold medalist in this technique , with no silver medalist in sight.
@doppelganger
i have seen your friends quoting records of portuguese atrocities in goa and kerala against hindus... maybe even you partook of those posts, and now you quote the same "evil" portuguese.
and how is circumcision such a great atrocity?? it is a pre-islami rite... so many indian members cheer for israel and israeli jews do circumcision, yet these particular indian members do not cry for the jews "forced" to undergo ritual circumcision... hypocrisy.
so you are saying that tipu was enemy also of the french?? that too in 1799??
and your source says different things at different points.
were muslims in his reign exempt from paying zakat??
you mean arakkal.
let me tell you what a malayali hindu young man told me some nine years ago about the namboothiris... he used to be part of sfi so he is a clear-minded person... for others sfi is "students' federation of india", a socialist students' organization present in some states of india.
this man told me that he is from a "lower caste" and his ancestors had to stop on the roadside and keep themselves in servile/reverence position whenever a namboothiri person walked by.
you thus forward the demeaning of man yet you claim outrage about tipu??
shouldn't we be talking about the farmer who suicided yesterday??
Lame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!