Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay)

"...had not the negociations to that end been interrupted in consequence of a resolution formed by Tippoo (in the combined view of indulging his zeal as a Mahommedan, and at the same time rooting up as he fondly might imagine, the causes of that aversion which the Malabar Hindus had hitherto shewn to his government) to attempt the forcible conversion of all his Hindu subjects in Malabar to the Musulman faith ...."