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http://www.dailyo.in/opinion/why-tipu-sultan-was-a-false-hero/story/1/1278.html

 

 

“There has been a lot of pressure from various quarters to celebrate Tipu Jayanti. We have decided to take this into consideration and will announce the date shortly," Siddaramaiah had said at the release of a book Tipu Sultan: A Crusader for Change, authored by historian professor B Sheik Ali.

 

Jayanti for a barbarian ?   Tippu gaadiki Jayanthi celebrate chesi Gandhi ki chesi..... thu...

 

Congress XX gaallu eppatiki bagu padaru.....

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In 1788, Tipu marched into Coorg and burnt down entire towns and villages. Mir Hussein Kirmani, Tipu’s courtier-cum-biographer describes how the raid resulted in the burning down of villages in Kushalapura (today’s Kushalnagar), Talakaveri, Madikeri, and other places. Additionally, Tipu in a letter to the Nawab of Kurnool, Runmust Khan describes how he took 40,000 Coorgis as prisoners and forcibly converted them to Islam and “incorporated them with our Ahmadi corps.” Already a thinly-populated country, Tipu’s brutal raid followed by large-scale prisoner-taking depopulated Coorg of its original inhabitants to a severe extent. To Islamise Coorg, he transported about 7,000 Muslim families belonging to the Shaikh and Sayyid sects to Coorg from elsewhere.

The intensity of Tipu’s raid was so terrifying that hundreds of temple priests fled to Mangalore along with their families. Worship came to a permanent halt in several temples. Some temples were covered with leaves in order to conceal their presence. The Maletirike Bhagavati temple at Virajpet is a good example of this. Equally, the renowned Omkareshwara temple in Madikeri was about to meet the same fate — the then ruler at Madikeri panicked at the approach of Tipu, removed its tower and replaced it with a dome so that it looked like a mosque from afar. The temple continues to retain this appearance till date. In his raid of Napoklu near Madikeri, Tipu destroyed the temples in the surrounding villages of Betu and Kolakeri.

Remnants of Tipu Sultan’s savage raid of Coorg survive even today — the forcibly converted Coorgis are today known as Kodava Mapilas (Coorg Muslims) whose last/family names are still Hindu — representative examples are surnames like Kuvalera, Italtanda, Mitaltanda, Kuppodanda, Kappanjeera, Kalera, Chekkera, Charmakaranda, Maniyanda, Balasojikaranda, and Mandeyanda.

To the Kodavas, Tipu’s fanatical dance of death in their homeland remains a wound that will never heal.

When we turn to the Malabar, the record is equally, if not gorier. Indeed, Tipu’s incursions into the Malabar can form the subject of an independent book. Like in Coorg, remnants of Tipu’s disastrous campaigns in the Malabar can be seen even today in the region. The city that bore the brunt of his excesses in the Malabar is Kozhikode (Calicut). William Logan’s Malabar Manual, the Malabar Gazetter, the Portuguese missionary Fr Bartholomew’s Voyage to East Indies, the German missionary Guntest and accounts by various contemporary British military officers contain first-hand accounts of how Tipu razed the city to the ground. An excerpt from Bartholomew provides us a representative glimpse:

 

 

First a corps of 30,000 barbarians who butchered everybody on the way… followed by the field-gun unit… Tipu was riding on an elephant behind which another army of 30,000 soldiers followed. Most of the men and women were hanged in Calicut, first mothers were hanged with their children tied to their necks. That barbarian Tipu Sultan tied the naked Christians and Hindus to the legs of elephants and made the elephants move around till the Modies of the helpless victims were torn to pieces. Temples and churches were ordered to be burned down, desecrated and destroyed. Christian and Hindu women were forced to marry Mohammadans and similarly their men were forced to marry Mohammadan women. Those Christians who refused to be honoured with Islam, were ordered to be killed by hanging immediately. These atrocities were told to me by the victims of Tipu Sultan who escaped from the clutches of his army and reached Varappuzha, which is the centre of Carmichael Christian Mission. I myself helped many victims to cross the Varappuzha River by boats.

The devastation in Calicut was so comprehensive that it changed the character of the place forever. Calicut was home to more than 7,000 Brahmin families. Thanks to Tipu, more than 2,000 of these were wiped out, and the remaining fled to the forests. In the words of the German missionary Guntest, “[A]ccompanied by an army of 60,000, Tipu Sultan came to Kozhikode [Calicut] in 1788 and razed it to the ground. It is not possible even to describe the brutalities committed by that Islamic barbarian from Mysore.”

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Indeed, Tipu made no secret of his hatred for infidels — both Hindu and Christian. After his death in 1799 in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and the fall of his capital Srirangapattana to the British, Colonel William Kirkpatrick discovered more than 2000 letters in his palace written in Farsi in Tipu’s own handwriting. In these letters, Tipu refers to Hindus as “kaffirs and infidels” and to the British as “Christians” who needed to be “cleansed (or converted) if the rule of Islam is to be firmly established in India.”

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2 generations pai successful gha ruddaru e congress kukkalu 

 

these are all nuisance ani chepehy stayekhi lo unnaru chala mandhee - dardrham 

 

chacha is great ani ruddaru and a bastard ni emiana anthey desadrohi vedu secularist kadhu totakura adhee idhee aney rajakeyham nadusthundhee 

 

andharru me pillakhi ayyina cheppandi - this is real and what is fake ani ....

 

Tippusultan serial on DD national - made huge impact - vadu edho pedda hero madhira buid up - ruddathamey e e jhathi takkuvha kukkala pani

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Bristish ollu veedini kukkani kaalchinattu kaalchi vaadi dress lu etc.. ettu kelli museum lo ettukonnaru... veedu freedom fighter endhi ebrasi vedava.....vaadu sachhina last war lo it was alliance of British, Travncore and Marathas that defeated him.....

 

Late 18th century lo  Nizams were better at least veedi levello ethnic cleansing cheyaledu......

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Bristish ollu veedini kukkani kaalchinattu kaalchi vaadi dress lu etc.. ettu kelli museum lo ettukonnaru... veedu freedom fighter endhi ebrasi vedava.....vaadu sachhina last war lo it was alliance of British, Travncore and Marathas that defeated him.....

 

Late 18th century lo  Nizams were better at least veedi levello ethnic cleansing cheyaledu......

aurangazeb maadiri unaadu gaa asala eedu

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saileshgogineni, on 01 Jan 2015 - 1:38 PM, said:

what i read from some links is nehru wantedly promoted this L son as nationalist hero to give place for muslim rulers in country for secular mark to the nation

 

ok. thanks for the information Mr. benjamin.

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Is tippu really that bad?? I doubt

 

The famous sri ranga nadha temple of sriranga patnam is just few foot away from tippu's living palace. If he was so much against hinduism, how is that temple standing there even today??

it's god's place he knows how to take care of it .....that's why ????????

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Is tippu really that bad?? I doubt

 

The famous sri ranga nadha temple of sriranga patnam is just few foot away from tippu's living palace. If he was so much against hinduism, how is that temple standing there even today??

 

Edo curse vundhi related to Temple.....local VijayaNagar Rayala's wife story.... may be andukani odili pettademo....

 

Also Mysore kingdom ku nominal kings Odayars Kada? ee actual kings vs nominal kings funda kooda funny ga vundhi..... may be andukani odili pettademo....

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Edo curse vundhi related to Temple.....local VijayaNagar Rayala's wife story.... may be andukani odili pettademo....

 

Also Mysore kingdom ku nominal kings Odayars Kada? ee actual kings vs nominal kings funda kooda funny ga vundhi..... may be andukani odili pettademo....

yeah.. aa story telusu..

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