Karthikai Deepam-The Symbolism & the Significance

Karthikai Deepam-The Symbolism & the Significance

The SYMBOLISM 

It is on this day that Lord Shiva appeared as an endless flame of light at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu before Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma, who were fighting between each other as to who is superior.

In order to sort out this fight, Lord Shiva as a huge column of fire, asked them both to find the ends of this form of light - his head and feet; and who ever finds it shall be considered as the superior.

Lord Vishnu took the form of a boar (Sanskrit:Varaha, Tamil:Varaham(pandri) ) and tried to reach the end of the fire beneath the earth. He failed miserably and came back to Lord Shiva saying that he was unable to find the end of the fire from the bottom.

Lord Brahma on the other hand, took the shape of a swan (Sanskrit: Hansa, Tamil:Annam) and flew to find the beginning of the fire on the topside and flew towards the skies. After flying high with no end in sight, he chanced upon a piece of Thazhambu, a flower, learnt from it that it had been floating down for thirty thousand years from Lord Shiva's head.

He seized upon this and claimed to Lord Shiva that he had seen Lord Shiva's head. Lord Siva realized the falsehood and pronounced that there would never be a temple for Lord Brahma in this world. He also forbid the use of the flower Thazhambu in his worship.

Lord Shiva appeared as a flame hill (Arunachala Hill) at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu. Indeed, the very names `Tiruvannamalai' and `Arunachala' translate as `holy fire hill.' This occurs on the day when the moon is in conjunction with the constellation Karthigai (Pleiades) and pournami. This constellation appears as a group of six stars in the firmament in the shape of a pendant from the ear.





Constellation Karthigai (Pleiades)





Tiruvannamalai Arunachala Temple










The Shivalinga in the temple is the Agni linga. The tiny lamps lit during the Karthigai festival (Karthigai Deepam) are believed to be the miniature replicas of the fire linga. Every year thousands of devotees from all over flock to Tiruvannamalai to see the spectacular Karthigai Deepam (the fire lit on top of the hill symbolizing the original column of light) there.





Agal vilakku (oil lamps) lit up during Karthigai Deepam

The SIGNIFICANCE 

LORD BRAHMA represents the mind and intellect, LORD VISHNU represents the material world and its attractions and LORD SHIVA represents the endless cosmic infinity. 

Material pursuits are not going to take you to any higher states. You can only increase your possessions and no matter what you do in this short lifespan, you are bound to realize its actual insignificance sooner or later in this lifetime itself or through repeated lifetimes of doing the same thing. In this context, with this clarity, Lord Vishnu submits before Lord Shiva. 

Lord Brahma represents the mind which can go after all kinds of higher pursuits and all such mental pursuits only increase the ego. The ever changing mind is also deceptive and cunning. 

Even after realizing the futility of the pursuit, the mind seeks to justify and also engages in scheming activities to retain or prove its superiority. Thus Lord Brahma came about with a false evidence of the flower to falsely claim his position. 

Lord Shiva, representing the cosmic infinite emptiness which supports all physical manifestations banishes such falsehood that the mind is capable of. 

The mind and its ever changing engagements are to be banished from a temple or from the core of a seeker of truth. 

The fire and the light are symbolic of destroying of all falsehood-both material and intellectual with the pure light of knowledge to regain our own pure and infinite state. This is to show that no matter what we pursue, our only purpose in this world is to regain our own original infinite state.

Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma pursuing both ways and returning back in futility clearly is a loud message that we have come this far after millions of years of physical evolution and having come to the highest possible state to be able to make this enquiry, we are urged not to waste it with endless deceptions and preoccupations.

So, if we go to Tiruvannamalai every year and just see the symbolic representations (which are retained only for carrying the significance to generations) and return back, glorifying and expressing the awe of Lord Shiva, it is not going to serve the intended purpose.

What ever rituals you do for Lord Shiva-is it going to enhance the cosmic source in any way? The clear message here is to transcend all the material and intellectual attractions and engagements without deceiving ourselves and continue our natural evolutionary journey with the wisdom of knowledge, to become one with the cosmic source.

Being born as Hindu itself is like winning a lottery because you are born into the only tradition which has elaborately laid out the path to attain the highest possible truth, unlike other basic paths laid out for societal well-being. Hence, it will be a terrible disrespect to your true tradition, if you dont have this as the primary purpose of existence and do what ever it takes to realize it.

Kartikai Deepam and Lord Muruga
Lord Muruga, also known as Skanda, Subrahamaniya and Kartik, was born as six different babies to Lord Shiva after he awoke from the deep meditation after Goddess Sati’s death. The six babies were looked after by the Six Krittika stars and the six children were later joined to a single force by Goddess Parvati.

Krittika is the six stars or the Pleiades cluster – when Muruga joins them as a child they make seven stars. As Muruga was born as six different babies and later joined into one He is popularly known as Aarumugan in Tamil culture.

Lord Muruga as Kumaraguru Advising Lord Shiva
Another legend has it that the lamps lit symbolically represent knowledge, victory and peace. Muruga as Kumaraguru is believed to have taught the meaning of ‘OM’ to Lord Shiva. Thus the lamps lit on the day are in remembrance of sharing the ultimate knowledge of ‘OM.’ The knowledge of OM helps in enlightenment and emancipation.

The Lord Muruga episode is also symbolic of continuous life and masters appearing in the physical plane to share the science of enlightenment, which can be attained through meditations on the maha mantra OM.

OM is AUM - A (ah) is the first sound one can make. If you try making any sound with your mouth, you will realize that A (ah) is the first sound possible and there is no sound before that. U (oo) is the mid sound you can make in a similar way and and M (mmm) is the final closing sound in a similar way.

Hence, the mantra OM or AUM, covers the entire sound phenomena that represents the entire manifested world. When you intone this sound, it represents the entire manifested material world and in the gap you have when you intone the next AUM lies the SILENCE, the silent space which supports all manifestations.

So, AUM, silence, AUM, silence, AUM, silence ..... and there will come a point where nothing else exists in your meditation except these 2 and when you are established only in this, the silent infinity takes over and you become one with the cosmic source.

Tipu-Francois Ripaud Diary-The Tyrant Diaries

The Tyrant Diaries
From the memoirs of a French adventurer who served at Tipu’s court
FRANCOIS GAUTIER
In December 8, 1988, an old trunk was discovered in the attic of the house of Elaine de la Taille Tretinville, who died at 91 in her 14th arrondissement flat in Paris. She was a descendant of the family of Les Ripaud Montaudeverts. Among the contents was a manuscript in the hand of the most famous of the Montaudeverts—Francois Fidele Ripaud de Montaudevert. It starts with these words (in old French): “I, Francois Ripaud, am old today, but I want to tell you the true story of Tipu Sultan.”


Born in Saffre, northwestern France, in a middle-class family, Ripaud enrolled as a sailor, aged 11, on the Le Palmier. After many adventures, he settled in Mauritius, where he married and had two children. In 1797, hearing of Le Grand Tipu Sultan, he sailed from Mauritius (then called Ile de France) to Mangalore and sought a meeting with the sultan, promising “to raise a large force in Mau­ritius and put it at Tipu’s disposal”. Tipu, who had an early connection with the French, having been instructed in warfare by French officers in the employ of his father, jumped at the idea and gave Ripaud letters of credential. 

On August 19, 1798, Ripaud came back to Mauritius and made a proclamation seeking volunteers for an “expedition to travel to Mysore to assist Tipu in his resistance to British encroachment in south India”. It must be noted that, two months earlier, Napoleon had invaded Egypt and dreamt of establishing a junction with India against the British, so the governor of Mauritius received instructions to collaborate and Ripaud was able to sail to Mangalore with a shipload of French soldiers who were welcomed there like heroes.

Life at Tipu’s court was a dream for our hardy adventurer, but he began to have some misgivings. In his diary entry of January 14, 1799, he writes: “I’m disturbed by Tipu Sultan’s treatment of these most gentle souls, the Hindus. 

During the siege of Mangalore, Tipu’s soldiers daily exposed the heads of many innocent Brahmins within sight from the fort for the Zamorin and his Hindu followers to see.” Even so, he cast his doubts aside and put up for Tipu’s benefit a dem­onstration of the egalitarian political ideas of France: in 1799, a French paper entitled ‘Proceedings of a Jacobin Club formed at Seringapatnam by the French Soldiers in the Corps Commanded by Francois Ripaud’ was found in Tipu’s palace. It listed 59 Frenchmen in the pay of “citizen Tipu” and described a “primary assembly” of May 5, 1797, to elect a president (Ripaud) and other office-bearers. The ‘Rights of Man’ were proclaimed and the sultan formally received a small delegation from the club.

After this interval, we find another diary entry in which Ripaud is appalled at what he witnessed in Calicut (Kozhikode): “Most of the Hindu men and women were hanged...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 bodies 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 Mohammedans, and similarly, their men (after conversion to Islam) were forced to marry Moha­mm­edan women. Christians who refused to be honoured with Islam were ordered to be killed by hanging immediately.” These events were corroborated by Father Bartholomew, a famous Portu­guese traveller, in his memoir, Voyage to East Indies.

Another diary entry of Ripaud says: “To show his ardent devotion and steadfast faith in the Mohammedan religion, Tipu Sultan found Kozhikode to be the most suitable place. 

Kozhikode was then a centre of Brahmins and had over 7,000 Brahmin families living there. Over 2,000 Brahmin families perished as a result of Tipu Sultan’s Islamic cruelties. He did not spare even women and children.”

A disgusted Ripaud left Seringapatnam and went back to France, where he obtained captainship of a fine fighting ship, the Shapho. On February 23, 1814, fighting an English frigate, Ripaud had his arm ripped off by a cannon ball. He died the same evening. Even the British, his arch enemies, gave a 21-cannon salute to this brave adventurer, once Tipu Sultan’s ‘Great White Hope’.

(The writer is editor-in-chief of La Revue de l’Inde. This piece is based on two books: Jean Feildel’s A la Mer, en Guerre: Vie du Corsaire Ripaud de Montaudevert and Louis Brunet’sRipaud de Montaudevert: Scenes de la Revolution Francaise a L’ile Bourbon.)

The Scientific Dating of the Ramayana

The Scientific Dating of the Ramayana

Did Rama exist? A billion Hindus believe he did and an unbroken tradition of Rama…Rakesh Krishnan Simha @SimhaRakesh
Indology | 15-11-2015

http://indiafacts.co.in/the-scientific-dating-of-the-ramayana/


Did Rama exist? A billion Hindus believe he did and an unbroken tradition of Rama worship has continued for thousands of years in India. Rama is also a hero in Indonesia (despite it being a Muslim country), Thailand and in several other South East Asian countries. Without the weight of historical tradition, the Ramayana would have been swept away by the tidal waves of conquests that India suffered over a period of 1300 years.

A Ramayana ballet from Indonesia

But there are others who argue that there is no proof Rama lived. These are the same people who will happily agree that a child can be conceived without human conception. 

Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence produced by the likes of Charles Darwin, they believe the earth was created in 4004 BC and that a certain being called god created the world in seven days. (Or was that six? Yes, he was so powerful he needed to rest on Sunday.) 

They won’t question any Christian or Muslim myths – howsoever outrageous, bizarre or downright funny – but Hindu traditions are open season for them. They want you to produce Rama’s birth certificate, and chances are even if you somehow get a copy, they will ask for the doctor who attested it.

The British and their acolytes like Max Muller are originally responsible for the prevailing stereotypes about Indian history, religion and culture. Muller, who was in the pay of the East India Company, went so far as to describe the Vedas as childish poetry.

In her History of India, academician Romilla Thapar describes the celebrated Rig-Veda as “primitive animism”; the Mahabharata as the glorification of a “local feud” between two Aryan tribes; the Ramayana as “a description of local conflicts between the agriculturists of the Ganges Valley and the more primitive hunting and food-gathering societies of the Vindhyan region” (sic).

But the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and other ancient Indian texts like the Vedas, Puranas and Upanishads are true records of Indian history, interwoven with mythology, philosophy and spirituality. Just because they talk about battles between gods and demons is no reason to dismiss their accounts of kings and other contemporary developments as mere story telling. 

It is indeed amazing that the Bible mentions numerous fantastic events like the Great Deluge, Pillar of Fire, instantaneous healing of cut-off ears, is full of sexual imagery including incest and is yet considered a history of Christianity and Jews, while the ancient Indian texts are considered “mere” mythology.

The unfortunate part is that many secularists, brown sahibs and Macaulayites – a class of Indians who are English in outlook and Indian only in looks – readily agree that India’s epics are pure mythology and gleefully bow down to the verdict passed by their former white colonial masters. In their view, because the British averred that Indian epics do not pre-date the Christian Bible, then it must necessarily be true.

Science comes to history’s aid

Science, however, is not parochial. Just like the laws of motion cannot be questioned, scientific evidence is incontrovertible. Science also has a habit of shaking up the deepest foundations if they rest on a bed of lies. 

Catholic Christians – or more accurately their boss, the Pope – had to admit at long last in 2009 that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, a discovery made by Galileo 400 years ago (and which the Hindus knew thousands of years before that).

Ruins of Dwarka, underwater at the Gulf of Khambhat

In the late 1980s divers of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, led by leading archaeologist S.R. Rao discovered Krishna’s sunken capital Dwarka, precisely at the place in Gujarat where Krishna mentioned it was located. 

Palaces, pillars, fort walls, a port, anchors and various artefacts have been discovered. This is among the rare instances where a historical fact has been established through scientific methods. It establishes the fact that Krishna existed. So the Mahabharata was true, and since it mentions incidents from the Ramayana, then doesn’t it prove that Rama also existed?

Also, literary references to the characters from the Ramayana Era provide limits after which the Ramayana could not have occurred. For example, Valmiki is referred to in the Taittiriya Brahmana (dated to 4600 BCE) and therefore Ramayana must have been written before the Taittiriya Brahmana was composed.

Follow the clues

The wonderful thing about the Ramayana is that when Valmiki wrote the epic, he made it idiot-proof. (For fun let’s assume Valmiki being a prescient sage knew that secularists, communists, India haters, British invaders and Macaulayites would exist in the future and try to run down his historical opus.) 

He packed so much information about the various planetary positions of those days, the geography of the areas mentioned in the epic, the seasonal events, and about the genealogy of various kings that modern astronomers and scientists can have a crack at the dates on which those events occurred.

Genealogical links and archaeological findings provide clues to the dating of the Ramayana era. According to journalist and author B.R. Haran, “In no other nation and no other religion in the world, true history is so meticulously documented, supported by umpteen evidences. Any ancient history is supported with evidences of architecture and literature. 

The Sangam literature is the documented evidence for the existence and ruling of Tamil kings, and similarly, Ramayana and Mahabharata are the documented evidence for Rama and Krishna. Questioning Ramayana and Mahabharata is like questioning the very existence of India.”

Archaeological and literary methods can only provide approximate datelines. For determining the precise time of the Ramayana events, scientists use astronomical calculations. Several of India’s leading astronomers, astrologers and retired nuclear scientists have come together to establish the dates of India’s ancient history.

Note that the “Hindu epics are myth” brigade is led by communist academicians who have zero interest in the truth, Nehru family carpet baggers, Christian freeloaders who have penetrated Indian cultural outfits, and Indians who have slept with their Anglo-American PhD guides to become, in Arun Shourie’s words, “eminent scientists”.

Dr Raja Ramanna

On the other hand, most of those trying to prove the epics are history are scientists. For instance, at a global colloquium (http://ignca.nic.in/nl002503.htm) jointly organised by The Mythic Society, Bangalore, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Sir Babasaheb (Umakanth Keshav) Apte Smarak Samithi Trust on January 5 and 6, 2003, the late Dr Raja Ramanna, the father of the Indian nuclear bomb, said the “best clock for dating was the sky itself and the position of stars”.

These scientists are studying facts, they are looking back in time at precession or the position of stars. They are not regurgitating the discredited writings of Karl Marx, the racist German who supported English rule over India. So you judge for yourself who is speaking the truth and who’s peddling snake oil.

Dating the Ramayana

So how is astronomical dating done? Historian Dr P.V. Vartak says: “Sage Valmiki has recorded the dates of events in detail, albeit by describing the positions of stars and planets. To decipher the astronomical encodings has not been a trivial task, and not many have attempted to do so. 

It should be noted that the ancient Indians had a perfect method of time measurement. They recorded the ‘tithis’ (days) according to the nakshatra (star) on which the moon prevailed, the months, the seasons and even the different solstices. By noting a particular arrangement of the astronomical bodies, which occurs once in many thousand years, the dates of the events can be calculated.”

Dr Vartak has taken hundreds of illustrated passages from the epic to establish dates. He writes: “Valmiki records the birth of Rama as Chaitra Shuddha Navami (9th), on Punarvasu Nakshatra and five planets were exalted then; Sun in Mesha up to 10 deg; Mars in Capricorn at 28 deg; Jupiter in Cancer at 5 deg; Venus in Pisces at 27 degrees and Saturn in Libra at 20 degrees. (Bala Kanda 18, Shloka 8.9). December 4, 7323 BCE, therefore, is the date of birth of Rama, when the four planets exalted. Ramayana occurred over 9300 years ago.”

Frankly, only an astrologer or astronomer can make any sense of it. Still, Dr Vartak’s passages illustrate how dating can be done with sufficient information. Events – such as an eclipse, planetary or astral positioning or a comet sighting – mentioned in an epic like the Ramayana may have occurred subsequently or prior. Over a period of say, 20,000 years, a particular type of event could have happened several times.

Stars shift position too vis-a-vis the earth so the star field we see in the night sky is not what the ancients saw 9000 years ago. This is called precession and has to be factored into all calculations. The idea is to back astronomical data with other reference points such as geography (for instance, how many of those eclipses took place over Ayodhya) in order to reduce the probability of error.

King Guha’s descendants

The Daily Pioneer (http://www.dailypioneer.com/todays-newspaper/ramayana-not-a-work-of-fiction.html) reports that an international team of researchers consisting of geneticists, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians have found that Ramayana is a chronicle of events and characters recorded by Sage Valmiki and not a work of fiction.

The team, led by Dr Gyaneshwer Chaubey, a genetics scientist of the Estonian Biocentre in Estonia, included scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad; Delhi University; Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur; and the Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas. It has found that the Bhils, Gonds and the Kols communities are the true descendants of characters featured in Ramayana.

The Kol tribe, found mainly in areas like Mirzapur, Varanasi, Banda and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, are the descendants of the Kol mentioned in the Ramayana, the study says. Guha, the Nishad king, who helped Rama cross the Ganga during his journey to the forests, is the ancestor of the present day Kol tribe. “These groups of people carry the basic indigenous genetic traits of India… they are the true descendants of Rama and his contemporaries,” Dr Chaubey said.

Who knows, further research could come up with more surprises. For, unlike the secularists, Macaulayites and communists who are unanimous that Rama never existed, the scientists are not adamant that the date is fixed. Like all good scientists, they just want to continue looking in the hope that one day they’ll nail the truth.

“Where do we go from here?” asks Dr Kalyan Raman, a Chennai-based scientist, and offers the answer: “Trash western Indological work done with motivation and instead rewrite Indian history.” Truth, he says, should be perceived in terms of our national heritage.

Epilogue: Why Hindus love Rama

Unlike Krishna, who had the 16 kalas or qualities that makes one perfect, Rama had mastered only 14 kalas. The prince of Ayodhya is, therefore, imperfect and he shows it on several occasions, most starkly when he asks his wife to undergo a chastity test. Again, when an uncouth citizen questions his queen’s chastity, Rama sends his pregnant wife off to the forest. Krishna would have probably publicly mocked and shamed the citizen instead of banishing his own queen.

Flaws aside, Rama is loved by Indians because he takes sacrifice to a new level. He is a warrior prince who cheerfully gives up the greatest empire of the day so his step mother would not have the slightest reason to complain.He is a husband who lets go his wife because one man – just one –among his millions of subjects objected to her presence in the kingdom.

Looking at things from the perspective of the modern era – where we instinctively genuflect before politicians – Rama was taking it too far, but for the king of Ayodhya his own comforts or that of his family mattered little. True to ancient Hindu laws, he knew the king’s primary duty was to serve his people. So how could he have even one unhappy citizen, howsoever boorish that person may be?

In their moving and brilliant translation of the Ramayana, William Buck and B.A. van Nootena say: “Rama could discover the truth of things, and men resorted to him from all over the earth, as the rivers of the world all flow to the sea. Rama was well-honoured and well-loved. His presence filled the heart.

“Rama was strong enough to support all men, and gentle as the new moon’s beams. Fame and wealth never left him. When he was king men were long in life, and lived surrounded by their children and grandchildren and all their families. The old never had to make funerals for the young. There was rain and fertile earth; indeed, the earth became bountiful.

“Peace and Rama ruled as friends together, and bad things did not happen. Men grew kind and fearless. Everyone had about him a certain air and look of good fortune.

“A king like Rama was never seen before and nowhere remembered from the past in any kingdom, nor did any like him ever follow in the later ages of this world.”

Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Rakesh Krishnan Simha is a New Zealand-based journalist. He writes on foreign affairs and defence for Russia Beyond the Headlines, a project of the Moscow-based Rossiyskaya Gazeta group, Russia’s largest media group. He is on the advisory board of Europe-based Modern Diplomacy.

TIPU SULTAN UNMASKED

TIPU SULTAN UNMASKED

- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

TIPU SULTAN UNMASKED- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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TIPU SULTAN , THE TRUE

STORY OF A VILLAIN





It is amazing how Indians accept warped and skewed history written by our invaders.


Opium drug runner German Jew Rothschild’s who owned the British East India Company, is hardly known any where in India or the world. Rothschild owns 80% of Israel and runs the US Federal Reserve.

Their wealth in 2011 runs in excess of 300 trillion US dollars, or 300,000 billion dollars. But they don’t find a name in the Forbes 500 list.


Forbes was the opium agent of Rothschild in USA. Bill Gates, Carlos Slims, Warren Buffet all with wealth less that 60 billion US dollars take the top three spots, of the richest men in the world.

HOW DID ROTHSCHILD LAY THEIR HANDS ON SO MUCH MONEY?


WELL , TIPU SULTANS GOLD WENT INTO THEIR VAULTS. THEIR FASTEST CLIPPER SHIPS WERE READY TO CART AWAY TONNES GOLD IN 1799 WORTH MORE THAN 7000 BILLION USD , THREE MONTHS BEFORE TIPU WAS KILLED.


FROM WHERE DID TIPU SULTAN GET HIS GOLD?
AFTER ALL HIS PUNJABI MUSLIM FATHER HYDER ALI WAS JUST A ORDINARY SOLDIER NAIK IN THE MYSORE WODEYAR HINDU RULER’S ARMY.

TIPU’S GOLD CAME MAINLY FROM THE VAULTS OF THE TEMPLES OF CALICUT—MY HOME TOWN. THE FRUIT OF 6 MILLENNIUMS OF SPICE TRADE IN A STABLE KINGDOM, NEVER ATTACKED , TILL THE PORTUGUESE CAME WITH THEIR SUPERIOR CANONS TO CALICUT, IN 1498 AS TRADERS.


Most of this pure gold is from the gold mines of Timbuctoo. King Solomon paid in gold for the spices , teak wood and sandalwood

Who are these German Jew Rothschilds?

They made their money by Opium drug smuggling from India to China


They send paid mercenary Hessian German soldiers to USA , well paid with Opium drug money. In USA during the war of Independence ( 1783 ) they supported both the Red coats commanded by British Lord Wellesely, and also the blue coats , who were led by the Opium agents of Rothschild.
Punch into google search THE DIRTY SECRETS OF BOSTON TEA PARTY- VADAKAYIL.


They financed the Battle of Waterloo ( 1815 ) , both sides-- the British as well as the French. They made an ass out of British people who lost their entire wealth in the stock market. Rothschild managed to convince the British that they are losing the Battle of Waterloo, by using a pigeon carrier from the battle field trick--and bought up all their falling stocks.

In 1757 traders Rothschild took over India . The first battle of Independence or the Battle of Plassey was won without firing as single shot- by Robert Clive bribing the King Siraj Ud Daulash's army commander cum brother-in-law Mir Jaffar, to kill him before the battle even started. Of course they fired a lot of shots merrily into the air as propaganda.


In 1799 they used Commander General cum Prime Minister Mir Saadiq to kill Tipu Sultan , and then dressed him up and put him in the battle field outside the fort of Srirangapatnam , to make it appear that he was killed in Battle.


Then of course as usual they fired thousands of rockets and guns merrily into the air, to make it appear that a great storming of the citadel was going on. The British army raped and pillaged at will , the whole night. All this is NOT recorded by British historians. So much heat and smoke was released into the atmosphere , that the next day there was a terrible cloudburst.

No wall of the fort was breached, as written by British historians . The door of the fort were opened by Mir Sadeeq on 4th May 1799. . All Tipu Sultan loyalists soldiers were sent away to stand in queue for wage distribution.

Below : Rothschild's agent and Tipu Sultan’s PM Krishnacharya Purnaiya ( Mir Miran Purnaiya ) who sent Tipu Sultan’s soldiers to collect their salary, leaving Tipu’s palace unguarded..



Tipu himself was having his food, when he was killed by a single shot from close quarters on his left cheek. He was also stabbed three times on his chest and later dumped outside on the field among the dead at dusk .


General David Baird using the light from a flaming torch, noted that the priceless emerald jewels he always wore round his neck was missing though he was lying under dead men . The killers had made him clasp the handle of his sword after breaking it at the hilt and the broken blade part was not seen anywhere around .

The British did great propaganda that Tipu Sultans gunpowder and rockets were wet, as they deliberately flooded the armoury in the basements. Well Tipu Sultan knows where to keep his gunpowder, and flooding factor is always taken into account.

The dirty truth is whatever rockets and gunpowder was supplied to Tipu Sultan by the French was Rothschild’s armament goods. The French ruler Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai was under the influence of Rothschild money. A few days after Tipu’s treasure was in Rothschilds hands they got rid of Phillipe, and gave him a good pension .

None of the rockets would have exploded even if they were dry. The British had the Maratha army and the Nizam of Hyderabad’s soldiers with them just in case Mir Sadiq could not deliver the goods. Mir Sadiq and his assistant Mir Moinuddin , who were bribed by Rothschild man Lord Wellesely , were both murdered by the British and made it appear as if they were killed by Tipu Sultan loyalists. So the British made ousted King Wodeyar, rotting in Tipu's prison , the new king of Mysore.

WHY DID THE BRITISH WAIT TILL 1799 TO TAKE OUT TIPU SULTAN ? WHY WAIT FOR FOUR ANGLO MYSORE WARS?

THE TRUTH IS BY TAKING TIPU SULTANS TWO SONS AS HOSTAGE AFTER THE THIRD BRITISH MYSORE WAR, AND SNATCHING AWAY HALF HIS KINGDOM, THEY GOT HIM TO TRUST THE FRENCH. ( Mossad style deceit )

AND WHO WERE THE FRENCH ? JUST ROTHSCHILD’S STOOGES.


THE BRITISH UNDER ROTHSCHILD ENSURED THAT TIPU SULTAN CLEANED OUT THE GOLD IN NORTH KERALA TEMPLES.

TIPU NEVER FOUGHT WITH THE BRITISH IN KERALA. TIPU SULTAN BEING A MUSLIM HAD THE CONNIVANCE AND TRUST OF LOCAL MAPPILAS , WHO GAVE HIM SECRET INFORMATION --MUSLIM TO MUSLIM .

Today if you come to Kerala, you will ask—why are the Kerala temples all looking as if they have been built yesterday? The reason is Tipu Sultan dug up the foundations of each and every major temple. In 1790 Tipu attacked the South Kerala Kingdom of Travancore in 1790. The fruit of which was a broken leg which made him permanently lame. He lost his sword and this is the sword which Vijay Mallya bought at Sotheby auction.

Recently actor Sanjay Khan had made a TV serial for national channel Doordarshan , to do propaganda from the Muslim perspective. Tipu Sultan was portrayed as a hero and martyr and freedom fighter like Chatrapati Shivaji .

And a few months ago, we had our Muslim minister Salman Khursheed jumping up and down like an orangutan, trying to get Tipu Sultan play enacted in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, and convert him into a Indian freedom fighting hero. He should do that for Ghaznavi too.

Nothing is further from the truth.

The letters which Tipu sent to the French ruler and King of Turkey to attack India and to support him against the British is available in the museums . His serial was based on a false information in a book written in 1976 by Bhagwan Gidwani, who claims that he did 13 years extensive research.

Well , I must say his research is no good. He must know that not a single child in South India is named Tipu—for this name is synonymous to Hitler, or Ravan or Shylock or Judas -- hated by one and all.

Indian government has even released a national stamp with Tipu Sultan’s face on it—portraying him as a freedom fighter. By doing that the government in appeasing the Muslim sentiment ( which does not exist for Tipu ) has ignored the feelings of the people of Kerala.

Tipu Sultan destroyed more than 8000 temples in Kerala, Mysore and Tamilnadu.. OK, Calicut temples had gold hidden, but what about Mysore and Tamil Nadu? He tried to made Persian the official language of Mysore by abolishing Kannada.

In 1788 Tipu Sultan had razed my hometown Calicut to the ground. Tipu spared Raja of Cochin as he was a vassal of Hyder Ali.

The way Tipus thousands of people were killed in Kerala is too macabre to even describe. They were hung upside down on trees , before being put to the sword and then left to hang there , with terrible stench everywhere. Elephants were used to tear bodies apart. Tipu’s soldiers raped at will, but they did NOT have intercourse with attractive dead women like what Timur’s Mongol soldiers did.

However they used to line up thousands of Hindu men to get circumcised— stretch out the foreskin, slice with a knife and out—next guy! Then they had to eat beef while bleeding from the tip of the penis, wrapped in a rag.http://youtu.be/Xmi_ADpY5YQ

Watch video above by clicking on link -- today even as I write this post, in Libya blacks are made to eat their family and friends, before being lynched by NATO and US supported rebels. For a Hindu, eating beef is worse than cannibalism. Women and children under 18 are NOT allowed to watch this video.

When thousands of Hindus ran away into the forests , Tipu gave his royal word of honour to come back and he would forgive them. As soon as they came back attractive women would be caught as slaves, men and children would be given the option—be killed or get yourself circumcised now! This happened to Kolathiri Raja and he preferred to be pulled apart by elephants than eat beef.

While escaping from Tipu's army, one of the princes of the Chirackal Royal family in North Malabar was captured . As per the accounts of Tipu's own diary , the body of the prince was dragged by elephants through his camp and it was subsequently hung up on a tree along with seventeen of his followers who had been captured alive

Letter written by Tipu Sultan dated January 19, 1790, to Badroos Saman Khan: "Don't you know that I have achieved a great victory recently in Malabar and over 4 lakh Hindus were converted to Islam. I am now determined to march against that 'Cursed Raman Nair' without delay. (Reference is to Rama Varma Raja of Travancore State who was popularly known as Dharma Raja for giving shelter in his state to all those who fled Malabar.). Thinking that he and his subjects would be soon converted to Islam, I am overjoyed and hence abandoned the idea of returning to Srirangapatanam."

Only if the men got circumcised, the family would be spared. Today hardly any Kerala Muslim in Malappuram district know that their forefathers were the same Hindus who stood crying in line by the thousands to get their foreskins sliced off by a crude knife. 25% of Kerala’s population is Muslim today. You get a general idea of how many Hindu men got circumcised and how many got killed.

IT WILL BE SUBVERSION OF HISTORY TO SAY THAT ALL CONVERSIONS WERE FORCED. THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTARY CONVERSIONS OF LOW CASTE HINDUS TO ISLAM, DUE TO THE SEVERE HARRASMENT OF HIGHER CASTE HINDUS ESPECIALLY LAND OWNING NAMBOODIRI BRAHMINS.

I WILL BE POSTING ON THIS SOON , TO REVEAL THE SICK MINDSET OF THE NAMBOODIRI CLAN, WHO GOT CARRIED AWAY WITH LORD PARASHURAMA'S PATRONAGE. THEY SUBVERTED THE VEDAS, AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY PAINTED THEMSELVES INTO A CORNER.

The half breed Arabs sailors who had 2 wives here in Kerala and 2 wives out there in Arab lands were , called Mappilas. They have merged with Kerala society today, but these fair skinned folks, will cheer for an Arab team if they play a football match with India.

Most of these fair skinned Mappilas are rich as they grabbed the ancestral lands and tharavadu bungalows of the landlord Hindus who ran away for their dear lives with their families. They were terrorized by Tipu Sultan and also by the dirty antics and daily harassment of these Mappilas, to force hem to run away.

After Tipus death when the British established their rule in Malabar and the exiled Hindu landlords made legal efforts to recover their ancestral landed properties, illegally occupied by the local Mappilas, Mullahs in mosques started preaching to their fanatic followers that "killing of Hindu landlords was a sacred Islamic act," leading to frequent Mappila Lahala outrages in Malabar.

Tipu Sultan got his own son married to such a Mappila Arakkal Biwi—the Queen of Cannanore. This was to score brownies points over Nizam of Hyderabad who had refused to give his daughter to a man of poor lineage —as Hyder Ali was a Punjabi commoner, NOT of Mughal descent..

Tipu Sultan had, ruled his kingdom only for sixteen-and-a-half years, from December 7, 1782 to May 4, 1799. The territory of Malabar was under his effective control only for a short period of eight years—but he sucked out all the wealth using local information from his Kerala Mappila spies. The British were monitoring all this happily.


Let Tipu Sultan with the aid of his Mappila local spies ,do all the temple vault breaking , temple foundation digging , ornament snatching from Kerala women, dirty , undignified , sweaty work and accumulate all the nice gold in some convenient spot, like bees gathering honey — we shall snatch it away for Amschel Mayer Rothschild , at that ripe time in ONE SWIFT AND SINGLE SWIPE.

For this they made Tipu Sultan sign a official document too—The Treaty of Mangalore of 1784- which gave the “ suzerainty of Malabar “ to him.


In a minor south Kerala Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple 24 billion US dollars worth gold was unearthed in July 2011. The main vault is yet to be opened due to security issues, and a judicial order.


Tipu was Hyder Ali’s son by his 2nd wife Fakrunissa. When ever Tipu Sultan went on a campaign he used to consult Hindu astrologers at Ranganatha Swami Temple at Srirangapatnam – such was the paradox. He also consulted the Hindu astrologers at Lakshmikanta temple at Kalale.


Hyder Ali first lay siege to Calicut’s King Zamorin ( Samoothiri ) in 1766 . The Calicut king committed suicide in , by blowing his gun-powder armoury up. He feared he would be tortured to reveal the whereabouts of his gold vaults. In any case Hyder Ali got his entire gold kept inside the palace. . After 22 years , in 1788 Hyder’s son Tipu razed my hometown Calicut again to the ground – he came with elephants, cannons, rockets and more than 68000 soldiers, via the Sultan Battery ghats..

He renamed all the towns with Islamic names. My hometown Kozhikode became Islamabad. Today only Feroke retains the old name. Rest have all been named back to original. British changed Kozhikode again to Calicut. Today once again it is back to Kozhikode , as my passport bears testimony.

Famous ancient temples looted and desecrated as per British records were : Triprangot, Thrichembaram, Thirunavaya, Thiruvannoor, Calicut Thali, Hemambika Temple, the Jain Temple in Palghat, Mammiyur, Parambatali, Venkitangu, Pemmayanadu, Tiruvanjikulam, Terumanam, Vadakhumnnathan Temple of Trichur, Belur Siva Temple, Shri Veliyanattukava, Varakkal, Puthu, Govindapuram, Keraladhiswara, Trikkandiyur, Sukapuram, Bhagavati temple Kodungallur, Maranehei Temple of Aaalvancheiri Tambrakkal, Vengara Temple of Aranadu, Tikulam, Ramanathakra, Azhinjalam Indiannur, Mannur Narayan Kanniar and Vadukunda Siva Temple of Madai.

The biggest loss was the 7000 year old Thirunavazha temple, along with priceless Vedic records. This temple was even older than 6000 year old Guruvayur.

Tipu Sultan was prevented from destroying the Guruvayur temple by Hydrose Kutty, who told him that the 6000 year old black idol has been shifted to the Ambalapuzha Sri Krishna temple in kingdom of Travancore for safekeeping. Even today, daily pujas are conducted in Ambalapuzha Sri Krishna Temple where the idol of Guruvayoor Temple was temporarily installed and worshipped.

I have visited the spot Tipu Sultan fell when I was a young boy of 11. At that time I felt sorry for him , for he was mentioned in my social studies and history book of school as a freedom fighter.


At the spot he had fallen there is a stone memorial , which I had visited, along with his palaces in Srirangapatman- all built with Hindu temple treasures.


In 2003 the sword of Tipu Sultan was bought by Vijay Mallya for a fortune . The sword of Tipu Sultan carried an inscription in Persian: "My victorious Sabre is lightening for the destruction of the unbelievers. Thou art our Lord, make him victorious who promotes the faith of Muhammad. Confound him, who refuses the faith of Muhammad and withold us from those who are so inclined".


This man had NIL respect for other religions— except when he wanted his own future to be known in advance by Hindu astrologers , and when he conducted special pujas to save his own skin.

In Tipu’s kingdom Muslims did NOT have to pay taxes—so much for his secular image.
Below Tipu's tomb.



Below Tipu's summer palace.




See video above-- After Tipu's death in 1799, the kingdom was restored to the imprisoned 5 year old boy king Krishna Raja Wodeyar III by the British and the palace shifted back to Mysore from Srirangapatnam. You may be surprised to know that more foreign tourists visit this magnificient awesome palace, than the Taj Mahal.

Yes-- this was the India , rich and proud --- once upon a time, -- till the white man stole everything.

Italian waitress Sonia Gandhi who hates Hindus, and her Muslim sycophant minister, Salman Khurshid has been trying their best to declare Tipu Sultan as a freedom fighter, in as much as they introduced his play in the Rashtrapati Bhavan. It cuts NO ice with patriotic Indians.
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Tipu Sultan paid for a Sahasra Chandi ritual for protection in war at Sringeri Mutt. Later in a letter he wrote to the Sankaracharya Sacchidanada Bharati that the rite was very powerful and effective.

He then invited the acharya to visit his palace at SriRangapatnam - QUOTE for wherever he stayed , there it rained in plenty, the harvest was bountiful and every prosperity attended the people UNQUOTE.

How did Kerala temples hold so much gold?

In ancient days temples were built stronger than modern day banks. Have you seen how Kedarnath temple withstood nature’s fury?

Punch into Google search-
MANSA MUSA KING OF MALI AND SRI PADMANABHASWAMY TEMPLE GOLD VADAKAYIL

Today people like Salman Khurshid are trying to convert Tipu Sultan into a freedom fighter in as much as the 2014 Republic day parade has Tipu Sultan’s tableau for Karnataka state.

He is even made out to be a rocket scientist by Islamic pride party. All the rockets Tipu Sultan held in his armory was given to him by the French branch of Rothschild, to blast Kerala temples.

Today you can see that the oldest temples of Kerala look as if they have been made recently.

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Kodavas vs tyrant Tippu

The Blood Bath Of Kodavas

Tall, well built, brave, beautiful and courageous are just few words commonly used to describe Kodava race. Kodava tribe has come a long way to earn the title warrior popularly known in Indian army as Kodava Warriors. The history of Kodavas is definitely one of the most fascinating and the bloodiest among any other civilization in India. My article is based on facts that are documented by historians and based on books which have highlighted the bloodbath of Kodava warriors. The article concentrates on Tipu Sultan and his cold blooded killings.




If Kodava today is one of the second least populated race in this world, it’s because of a barbaric character from the history known to people as Tipu Sultan. There were repeated attempts to capture Kodagu by Tipu and his father Hyder Ali before him. Tipu’s barbarism reached its peak from 1760 to 1790 and this period is considered as one of the most gruesome era in the history of Kodavas. Tipu’s closest commander Mir Kirmani in his book reveals the incident pertaining to Tipu’s brutality and religious conversion. During the year 1760 – 1780, Tipu destroyed more than 600 temples across Kodagu. His cruelty and self-obsession had reached its peak when his closest left him in the final war with British where Tipu died in stampede. He was not shot by Brits.



When Tipu first invaded Kodagu with his well-equipped 15000 army men carrying French Cannon with an intention of conquering Kodagu overnight, Kandanda Doddaiah and Appachira Mandanna with their troop of 5000, Kodavas retaliated against Tipu’s army near Suntikoppa, only to defeat Tipu’s army and chase them out of Kodagu . 

This war with Tipu is documented in Hunsoor literature which states “Kari Kupasu totha Kodavaru Kari Dumbhi anthe tippuvinatha nugi, hodedhodisidharu” Historians say this was a war of bravery versus strength and by the time Tipu realized the courage of Kodavas, he was defeated. Tipu popularly known and projected today as Tiger of Mysore and pride of Karnataka was defeated by Kodava 31 times during 25 years of war and this humiliation forced Tipu to seek revenge on Kodava. Kodavas were the master of the guerrilla warfare hence they succeeded every time in ambushing Tippu.



In the year 1771, Tipu with a large army attacked Madikeri fort post, where he captured Bhagamandala and converted the entire Bhagandeshwara temple and its premises into a fort. He had also chopped the elephants belonging to the temple, documents for the same is available in the temple even today. 

After capturing Bhagamandala as a tribute to himself, Tippu placed a stone titled “Salam Kallu”which can be seen on the way to Talakaveri, A evidence which even today tells the stories of brutality and bloodbath. After 15 years of war and retaliation with Kodavas, Tipu had understood he would not be able to capture the entire Kodagu which would provide him easy access to Mangalore port, hence he wanted to try something different. Something, which resulted in one of the biggest genocide of human race.





Tipu sent a message to naal naad Kodavas inviting them for a negotiation stating Marathas and British as his main enemies, hence he would want to end the war with Kodava and head back to Srirangapatana. 

Learning about the invite, Kodavas from naal naad gathered with their family on 13th of December 1785 at Devatiparambu located on banks of the river Kaveri to negotiate and bid bye to the decade long war. 

As the sun set behind the mountains of Kodagu, Kodavas came to Devatiparambu unarmed, in the mean while, half of Tippu’s army was deployed inside the forest waiting for Kodavas to gather as a part of his cowardly plan, once Tipu was sure he had unarmed men trapped, he ordered his army to massacre all Kodava present at Devatiparambu, troops hiding behind the bushes pounded on unarmed men, women and kids slaughtering more than 70,000 and capturing about 90,000 Kodavas and were deported to Seringapatam.

The captured women and children were subjected to immense physical and mental torture, the young men were all forcibly circumcised and incorporated into the Ahmedy Corps (name of Tipu’s army). The captured were subjected to forcible conversions to Islam, death, and torture. It’s said scale of massacre was so huge that the water in the Kaveri river turned red due to blood oozing out of the dead bodies and continued to flow red in color for 12 consecutive days. Many who were captured were converted to Islam and sent back to Kodagu and called themselves as Kodava Mapilas.


There are about 60 Kodava Mapilas family residing in Kodagu. They share same family names as that of Kodavas. In Devanageri village, Puliyanda Kodava mapilas resides and in the regions surrounding Virajpet, there are Muslim family names like Kuvalera, Italtanda, Mitaltanda, Kuppodanda, Kappanjeera. Similarly, in the Madikeri taluk, there are Kalera, Chekkera, Charmakaranda, Maniyanda, Balasojikaranda, and Mandeyanda in the Hoddur village in Madikeri taluk.

Kodava mapilas also used Kodava Ornaments, Mandamada Kodava mapilas and still use tookbolcha in their home, at the temples in Bshettigeri and Hudikeri, Karthura and Mandamada Kodava mapilas are priests. At yemmemadu dargah festival even to this date Kodava mapilas start the festival proceedings by offering prayers and flinging rice, Chekkera and Kalera Kodava mapilas are takkanga at yemmemadu.

The existence of these Kodava Mapilas are another living evidence reflecting the barbarism of Tipu on Kodavas. Tipu believed in destroying temples in Kodagu, during his course of destruction, he happened to destroy a bhagavadhi temple near Kotakeri and burnt Biddatanda ainmane where he captured 48 innocent people and took them along to Seringapatam.

Among these 40 people, Appanna managed to escape and returned to his village in Kodagu, however Appanna was out casted since villagers thought he was converted to Islam. Appanna lived alone till death near a pond which is called Appannajjanda Kere. The pond can be found even today. The remains of the Biddatanda Ain-Mane which was burnt with people inside shouting for help tells the horrific mindset of Tipu and his brigade.



Tipu after capturing Madikeri fort set his eyes on removing Kalasa from the Omkareshwara temple and replaced it with the dome which is another architectural evidence for destruction Tipu carried out during his rule. 

Tipu also wanted to abolish Kannada completely and hence he introduced Persian language into his administration . The persian words like “Dhapan, Barcas and Jammabandi ”still used in our land documents at Kodagu shows Tipu a wannabe to had eliminated Kannada from Karnataka. 

Its irony that government wants to celebrate Tipu’s birthday across Karnataka. The evidence not only indicates that he was not a conqueror but a religious fanatic and a dictator who believed in ethical cleansing of Kodavas and other community in south India.



The evidence for the bloodiest history of Kodagu and Kodava exists even today and is documented. A history which is filled with in-humanness, violence and genocide, a history which is today rewritten by politicians to lionize a mass murderer and efforts to project him as a hero is not only hurting the sentiments of Kodava, but it’s also sending out a wrong message about our history to the future generation of this country. A man who lost the battle 31 times and killed the brave Kodava warriors by infidelity can never be a Hero. Tipu was an invader, a dictator a coward and a murderer of human race and glorifying such inhuman personality is absolute shame and disgrace to humanity. The real history needs to be told to the next generation for them to know who the real warriors of the Kodava Land were.

Mukkatira Mac Thimmaiah.”

The above explains in volumes what Tipu Sultan stood for. Congress is celebrating that man who is just the opposite of Secularism.

On the same vein you could also see Congress has been in partnership with Indian Union MUSLIM LEAGUE for decades to cling on to power in Kerala. And they use the religious card to win elections in every state.

Of course you cannot forget the fact that the name of “Gandhi” which they use as suffix to the family that leads Congress itself is something FABRICATED!!!

Also note that the Congress of today has really nothing to do with the original Congress as most of the people who sacrificed for the country with the party has departed from it to form other parties and or retired in agony. Still the party claims the legacy of some great people who were long forgotten by them except one family.

Hope the people of India will realize what they are losing by promoting pseudo secularism.It will not take too long when “OTHERS” have the least 35% of population holding their religious beliefs and the country will become the flag bearer of that religion. 

Conquerors were honored and facilitated, now we are facilitating them to take supremacy on our own raise and potential retaining of those belief systems as we care the less about our ancestry and the heroes who gave their precious lives for the cause of this thinking ‘LOKA SAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU’.

By Pappan

Mukkatira Mac Thimmaiah
Contact : m2thimmaiah@gmail.com
http://macthimmaiah.blogspot.in/2015/11/the-blood-bath-of-kodavas.html

It’s always about politics: Here’s why Karnataka is raging over govt’s plans to celebrate Tipu Sultan Jayanti

by Nov 1, 2015

The Karnataka government's decision to celebrate 10 November as Tipu Jayanti flies in the face of history and has deeply offended the people of Coorg, Mangalore, and parts of Kerala who regard Tipu Sultan as a tyrant who destroyed temples, killed non-Muslims, and forcibly converted tens of thousands of conquered people. Various parties and organisations have already taken out protest processions and 10 November, is being observed across Coorg district as a black day.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has dismissed the protests as a conspiracy by communal forces. The BJP and Hindu organisations, though not leading the protests, have seen an opportunity here. 

But, the fact is that most Coorgs are hurt and offended by the Karnataka government's decision to celebrate Tipu Jayanthi. “He was a treacherous tyrant,” says CP Belliappa, Coorg-based writer of historical books such as Victoria Gowramma, the story of a Coorg princess adopted by Queen Victoria.


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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah. PTI

Coorg was a direct recipient of Tipu's tyranny. His occupation of the district, those days ruled by the Haleri dynasty, was marked with destruction of temples, killing of what Tipu called infidels, and mass conversions. According to Belliappa, Tipu, then at war with the Coorgs, said he would cease hostilities and suggested that the Coorgs come to a place near Bagamandala, near the birthplace of the River Cauvery, to discuss terms of peace. That was a trap. The Coorgs, when they arrived, were ambushed, rounded up, and taken away to Srirangapatna. There, they were circumcised and forced to eat beef.

Evidence of Tipu's deeds in Coorg comes from within his own court. Tipu's biographer and courtier Mir Hussein Kirmani wrote about Tipu's exploits in Coorg in his The History of Tipu Sultan, "The conquering Sultan dispatched his Amirs and Khans with large bodies of troops to punish those idolaters and reduce the whole country (Coorg) to subjection. They attacked and destroyed many towns. Eight thousand men, women, and children were taken as prisoners. They were collected in an immense crowd like a flock of sheep or herd of bullocks."

In a letter to the Nawab of Kurnool, Tipu claims he took 40,000 Coorgs as prisoners and forcibly converted them to Islam and incorporated them into his Ahmadi corps. Many of the descendants of Tipu's converted Coorgs still retain their original Coorg family names.

Tipu also went about destroying temples in Coorg. To protect the Omkareshwara temple in Mercara, residents of the town knocked down its towers and replaced them with domes. The temple retains the domes even today, striking testimony that has survived over the ages. According to the Mysore Gazetteer of the time, when Tipu was finally vanquished, only two temples in his kingdom performed daily pujas. The Gazetteer estimates that Tipu destroyed around eight thousand temples in South India.

Tipu did on occasion display a benign attitude to his Hindu subjects. For instance, a temple at Sringeri was a beneficiary of his largesse. This cannot be disputed. He also fought a couple of wars with the British, for which politicians, more than historians, place him in the league of freedom fighters. A rather fanciful novel by Bhagavan Gidwani and a dramatic play by Girish Karnad, based on Gidwani's book, help add to the narrative.

But these are fiction, according to Sandeep Balakrishnan, author of the definitive work titled Tipu Sultan, The Tyrant of Mysore. Balakrishnan says in a recent article that the gifts to Sringeri Mutt were meant to placate Hindus, who he feared would rise against him. It came at a time when Tipu had been drubbed during the Third Anglo-Mysore war of 1791. With the Marathas gaining in strength, the last thing he needed was to upset the Hindu majority among his subjects. Similarly, while he fought the British, he aligned himself with the French, whose Indian aspirations matched the British in greed and ruthlessness.

If Tipu's actions in Coorg were questionable, his actions in Malabar were said to be worse. Portuguese missionary Father Bartholomew wrote in his book, Voyage to East Indies, “Women and children were hanged in Calicut, first mothers were hanged and their children tied to necks of mothers. That barbarian Tipu Sultan tied naked Christians and Hindus to the legs of elephants and made the elephants to move around till the bodies of the helpless victims were torn to pieces.” After the pillage of Calicut, Tipu wrote to his generals: “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 Jihad to achieve that object.”

Back in his capital Srirangapatna, a few kilometres east of Mysore, Tipu made far-reaching changes to how his kingdom functioned. For instance, he changed the official language from Kannada to Farsi; he renamed cities and towns that had Hindu names; he changed weights and distance measurement to an Arabic system; he changed the calendar, reducing the year to 364 days, and even gave new names for the shorter months, Hindu courtiers, with one notable exception, were replaced. He also exempted Muslims from paying taxes. He reversed a decision by his father Hyder Ali not to levy taxes on temples.

The Coorgs helped end Tipu's rule. According to Belliappa, the Coorgs wanted revenge and were ready to fight against Tipu. The British did not accept their services. While the Coorgs were ferocious on the battlefield, they lacked the discipline and training that the British needed in their armies. But the Coorg king and his subjects allowed the small kingdom to be used as a path for the English frontlines to be supplied. They protected the road and drove the bullock carts themselves.

Around 2,000 letters were discovered after Tipu's death in 1799, written in his own handwriting. In them, Tipu frequently calls Hindus kaffirs and infidels. He also refers to Christians, mainly the British, who need to be cleansed or converted if Islam is to be established in India. So, when Chief Minister Siddaramaiah makes the astonishing claim that Tipu Sultan was a secular ruler and a model king, he ignores the huge array of historical evidence that says the opposite. But then, Tipu Jayanthi was never really about celebrating history. Says BJP, state media-in-charge Prakash Sesharagavachar, “The need to celebrate Tipu Jayanthi is political motivated. It is not supported by historical fact, which clearly paints Tipu as a tyrannical ruler.”

It's always about politics.

Sickening sicularists expressing their pathetic and disgusting views without knowing their own real history.

Tipu Sultan would have enjoyed status of Shivaji if he was a Hindu: Girish Karnad

by Nov 11, 2015

Bengaluru: Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad on Tuesday said 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan would have enjoyed the same status as of Maratha king Chhatrapathi Shivaji, if he was a Hindu and not a Muslim.

In another remark that stoked a controversy, Karnad said it would have been "apt" had the Bengaluru International Airport at Devanahalli near here been named after Tipu Sultan rather than Kempegowda, a feudatory ruler under the erstwhile Vijayanagara Empire which founded Bengaluru in 1537.


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Girish Karnad in a file photo. 

The remarks by the noted Kannada playwright and actor came at a state government organised function to mark the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan held amid tight security at the state Secretariat in the presence of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

The statewide celebrations are being boycotted by BJP and protested by several outfits who see the ruler of the erstwhile Mysore kindgom as a "religious bigot" and "anti-Kannadiga." The protests led to violence at Madikeri in Kodagu district claiming one life.

"I feel that if Tipu Sultan was a Hindu and not Muslim he would have attained the position in Karnataka that Shivaji Maharaj enjoys in Maharashtra," Karnad said.

Maintaining that Tipu is deprived of such a status owing to his religious persuasion, he said, "Because what has happened is today our scholars and politicians look at one's religion and caste first...."

"Injustice has happened to Tipu Sultan because of this type of evaluation..." he added.

Taking potshots at those calling Tipu Sultan "anti-Kannada and anti-Hindu", Karnad said, "Today, when we are celebrating this day as Deepawali and Tipu Sultan day, we can also celebrate it as Bihar day."

His Bihar day remark was an apparent jibe at BJP, which was routed in the Assembly polls. Karnad has always made known his ideological opposition to BJP.

Expressing similar opinion to that of Karnad while recounting the contributions of Tipu Sultan to the people of his kingdom, Siddaramaiah said "...if he was born as Hindu he would have got similar respect in Karnataka and the entire country, that Shivaji enjoys."

Siddaramaiah said, "We should not look at a person through his religion or caste perspective, but keeping in mind the good work done by him to the people. That is what we have done today by celebrating Tipu jayanti."

Karnad also said it would have been "apt" to name Bengaluru International Airport at Devanahalli after Tipu Sultan instead of Kempegowda as the latter was not a freedom fighter.

He noted that naming airport after Tipu Sultan would be more appropriate as Devanahalli was his birth place.

"I'm aware what I'm saying now will be debated....as we know Kolkata airport is named after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Mumbai airport is named after Shivaji Maharaj, but in Karnataka we have named it after Kempegowda," Karnad said.

"It is true that Kempegowda was great, he founded Bangaluru, but he was not a freedom fighter, so naming Bengaluru airport after Tipu Sultan would have been apt."

Karnad's remarks on Kempegowda international airport came in for attack from the BJP which said he had insulted the founder of Bengaluru on an issue which was a "closed chapter."

"Karnad is reopening a closed chapter and creating a new controversy....He has made name through controversies. His remarks are unfortunate and condemnable," state's senior BJP leader R Ashoka told reporters here. He also questioned the silence of the Chief Minister when Karnad made the remark.

Tipu was a ruler of the erstwhile kingdom of Mysore, who was considered an implacable enemy of the British East India Company. He was killed in May 1799 while defending his fort of Srirangapatna against the British forces.

Speaking at the event Siddaramaiah also said there is no "political interest" behind organising Tipu Jayanti.

Calling those opposing the event as "fanatics" and "communal forces", he said, "Until these communal forces exist such oppositions and controversies are common."

Siddaramaiah said politicising an event organised to pay respect to Tipu Sultan is "not correct".

"Whichever religion or caste that he may belong to, he has fought for the nation and has laid down his life for the people, so it is our duty to show respect," he added.

Several literary personalities and historians like Baraguru Ramachandrappa, Ko Channabasappa, Prof Shaik Ali, N V Narasimaiah who spoke at the event took exception to Tippu being labelled as anti-Hindu and anti-Kannada.

Recounting his contributions to promote communal and linguistic tolerance in his kingdom, they called him "truly secular."

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