He was consistent with his land donation for HIndu temples through out his short lived tenure, not just at the point of crisis.
Nope. He gave land grants to a total of 156 temples as recorded in his docs*. That's the average number of decent temples in a single district in this country today. The number of temples destroyed runs into thousands.
Secondly, I have recently read of an inaam of land to the Guruvayoor temple from a piece by an eminent secular historian named C.K.Ahmed.
As it turns out, I dug into it and found that the temple was itself actually looted and gutted by this secular hero called Tipu Sultan. Here's what the Illustrated Weekly of India states about the incident.
Source: Illustrated Weekly of India
Edition: January 2, 1977
All said, the glorification of this genocidal maniac needs to end. There are plenty of Muslim rulers who had a more decent history. There is a motion being prepared that will outlaw the glorification/idolizing criminals. Sanjay Khan, in a different country(Austria or Germany perhaps) would(actually should) have gone to jail.
*That is if we take them for granted. That becomes difficult because the same docs go on into gory details how many idolators were invited to islam and under what circumstances. But I guess the former is true while the latter must be false.
As for a total strength on paper of 143000 is concerned, one of the five Maratha federations itself had as many troops (of all types). Plus numbers at this time did not matter because we have seen how tactics, firepower and strategy shaped battles more than numbers on the ground. Plassey, Buxar etc all showed a similar trend - even the (2nd and 3rd)Anglo Maratha wars later.
A fairly good article about the futility of absolute character assessment of historical figures especially the ones like Tipu and a must read for Hindutva warriors who are exceedingly loud about Tipu's bigotry but conveniently oblivious about the regular Marhatta plunder of Hindu temples, who later became the national emblem of Hindutva pride.
Why we love to hate Tipu Sultan - Livemint
This is one of the most infamous instances of secular falsehoods. Islamic apologists often peddle this lie over and over again without the slightest evidence whatsoever. I looked this up after a visit to Kolkata's famous National Library and found hundreds of 'sources' that quoted each other with this information. But there is no mention of the loot anywhere in either the Maratha records nor in any apologetic account of the rulers of Mysore henceforth.
There is one important Maratha connection though -
Most of the names from the Sringeri lineage up to Vidyaranya are also found in the
Sri Guru Charitra, a 15th-century
Marathi work by Gangadhara Saraswathi.
What the secular eminent historians forget is that the Maratha armies had a fair share of Muslims as well, and even the Nizam also fought Tipu. The point is that it was not just a fight against Islam here, so the fight against Tipu was not a victory of Hindutva, just the liberation of the Hindus of that time.
Besides I find it funny to equate the alleged (and unproven)
plunder of temples by the (Hindu and hence evil) 'Marhatta's with the
mass slaughter and
forced conversion and
destruction of places of worship by (just regular contemporary not bad guys like ) the Muslims.
I suppose the only consolation could be that she idolizes Aurangzeb and even her facebook profile introduces her as 'Levina Alamgirni' in homage to the great Mughal King who Levina Apa is a direct descendant of !
No, that's me. I am the direct descendant of the later Mughals.
That's where my intolerance comes from.
) shes been on his case ! 
