Explained: How to read Tipu Sultan’s place in history | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: How to read Tipu Sultan’s place in history | Explained News, The Indian Express

Edited by Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: October 30, 2019 4:29:00 pm

Explained: How to read Tipu Sultan’s place in history

The "removal" of Tipu from textbooks will fundamentally alter the history of early modern India, and make invisible one of the key individuals in the society and politics of South India in the second half of the 18th century.

The BJP has long underlined Tipu’s cruel treatment of Hindus, including torture, forced conversions, and the razing of temples in the course of his conquests, as the central feature of his personality. (File)

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has announced that his government “is trying to remove Tipu Sultan’s history lessons from textbooks in the state”. “Such topics”, he said in Bengaluru on Wednesday, “must not find a place in textbooks. 101% we are not going to allow such things to happen”.