Tipu Sultan in the 21st century

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TIGER The Life of Tipu Sultan Kate Brittlebank Juggernaut 163 pages; Rs 399 Was Tipu Sultan a Muslim despot? Or was he a true nationalist who bravely battled a foreign power? This debate may have never entered the popular domain had it not been for an innocuous remark by an actor over the name of an airport, of all things, that inspired violent protests in Karnataka last November. Serious scholars would hesitate to make such a binary assessment, but politicians tend to be less cautious in their judgements if it fulfils their purposes. The violence after the Karnataka government ...

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Tipu Sultan in the 21st century