: Tipu Sultan – A Hero or A Villain? #WorldNEWSAll Whether appreciation and admiration of Tipu Sultan is unpatriotic? Should Tipu be regarded a hero or a villain? Speaking in Puttur in Karnataka a

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Whether appreciation and admiration of Tipu Sultan is unpatriotic? Should Tipu be regarded a hero or a villain?
Speaking in Puttur in Karnataka a few days back, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the BJP is a party of patriots, but the Congress and the JDS are not, because the latter support Tipu Sultan.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Puttur on 11 Feb, 2023
My own opinion is that none of the present political parties in India, whether Congress, BJP, or any other party, are patriots, because they have no genuine love for the country but only seek power and pelf. And to obtain that they divide and polarise society on caste and communal lines, and often spread hatred, to get vote banks.
Casteism and communalism are feudal forces, which have to be destroyed if India is to move forward, but these parties further entrench them.
Also, they divide our people on caste and communal lines, when the need is to stand united to face our massive socio-economic problems of poverty, hunger, unemployment, etc. So how can these parties be called patriotic?
But leaving that aside, the question is whether appreciation and admiration of Tipu Sultan is unpatriotic? Should Tipu be regarded a hero or a villain?
Portrait of Tipu Sultan by an anonymous Indian artist in Mysore, c. 1790–1800
What is the truth about Tipu Sultan? Was he secular or communal? Before we consider this question we must know some facts.
The initial Muslim invaders who came into India no doubt broke a lot of Hindu temples, like for instance, Mahmood Ghazni who broke the Somnath temple.
However, their descendants ( e. g. Akbar, who was not an invader, though his grandfather Babur was ) who became local Muslim rulers in India, far from breaking temples used to give grants to temples and celebrated Hindu festivals like Holi and Diwali.
The descendants of those invaders who became local Muslim rulers ruled over populations of which about 80-90% were Hindus. They knew that if they broke temples there would be revolts and turmoils which no ruler wants.
So in their own interest almost every one of the local Muslim rulers fostered communal harmony, they gave grants to Hindu temples, they celebrated Hindu festivals, e. g. the Mughal Emperors (there is a controversy about Aurangzeb, about whom I have written a blog which may be seen on justicekatju. blogspot. in), the Nawabs of Avadh, Murshidabad, Arcot, etc. For instance, the Nawab of Avadh used to organize Ramleela, and celebrate Holi and Diwali.
Tipu Sultan used to give annual grants to 156 Hindu Temples, his Prime Minister was a Hindu called Punaiya his commander-in-chief, was a Hindu called Krishna Rao.

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