Tipu Sultan - Hero or Villian

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Re: Tipu Sultan - Hero or Villian

@olikara

The mystique of Tipu is that each side (approvers and disapprovers of Tipu) have their own arguments and papers to buttress their claims. But how does one measure a ruler or a political figure? By one yardsticK-‘Did he do justice to the trust placed upon him by HIS people?’.

And the answer to this is-Tipu in every single way discharged his duties to MYSORE and ensured that Mysore was among or perhaps the most prominent independent state till the latter 1790s. So just as Durrani was a father figure to the Afghans but not for the Punjabis and Marathas, Shivaji to the Marathas but not to the Bengalis or the people of Central India, Tipu is one for the Mysoreans and not for the rest of India. Certainly not for the people of the Carnatic or Kerala.

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are you south indian or kannadiga ?

there is no such thing as people of carnatic.carnatic is music style of south india just like hindustani

if you mean’t karnataka then mysore is made of kannada people.

i do agree about tipu being hero to one section of people and villan to another section