Tag: Political polarization

By Hafeez Muhyudheen Tippu Sultan’s legacy has been questioned and lead to controversy in Karnataka for several times as part of politicizing a historical figure. Some right wing thinkers are secretly implicating their agenda on Karnataka’s history, literature and culture by portraying Tippu Sultan as a “religious bigot”. For that they pose arguments like he was a religious fanatic who callously massacred number of innocent Hindus, Kodavas, Nairs of Malabar and Christians, destroyed a lot of temples, indulged in mass forceful conversion to Islam. His was a barbaric ruling system...