Who was Tipu Sultan, where was he born and other information is something NCERT books baby feed us, so lets come straight to the point. Tipu Sultan of Mysore spent most of his life in Kerala, waging wars of territorial annexation and Islamic conversions. Therefore, the true character of Tipu Sultan can be best judged from his activities in Kerala. There is enough evidence, available in many authentic records of his military operations in Kerala, to justify that Tipu Sultan was a fanatic tyrant who was responsible for the destruction of hundreds of Hindu temples, large-scale forcible conversion of the Hindus, and perpetration of unimaginable brutalities on the Hindu population in Kerala. All the available records such as Malabar Manual of William Logan,Historical Sketches of Col. Wilks, Voyage to East Indies of Fra Bartolomaeo, histories of Kerala written by K.P. Padmanabha Menon and Sardar K.M. Panicker, official reports of the English Company, and the re...
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