#TipuSultan #Islam #india #Hinduism
"Thousands of Kodava Hindus were seized and held captive at Seringapatam. They were also subjected to forcible conversions to Islam, death, and torture."
Not content with confiscating all their available property,
and ravaging the district for the support of his army,
he carried of to his capital 20,000 of the inhabitants.
The young boys were afterwoulds trained to arms,
had formed the first nucleaus of aband of compulsory
converts from Hinduism to Islam.
Source:
Haidar Alí and Tipú Sultán and the Struggle with the Musalmán Powers of the South
By Lewin Bentham Bowring, Lewin Bentham Bowring · 1893
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