"In this context, it’s also pertinent to mention a 1964 book published by the Pakistan Administrative Staff College at Lahore. Entitled Life of Tipu Sultan, this book summarizes Tipu’s destructive raid in the Malabar as follows: Tipu imprisoned and forcibly converted more than a lakh Hindus and over 70,000 Christians in the Malabar region (they were forcibly circumcised and made to eat beef). Although these conversions were unethical and disgraceful, they served Tipu’s purpose. Once all these people had been cut off from their original faith, they were left with no option but to accept the very faith to which their ravager belonged, and they began to educate their children in Islam. They were later enlisted in the army and received good positions. Most of them morphed into religious zealots, and enhanced the ranks of the Faithful in Tipu’s kingdom. Tipu’s zeal for conversion was not limited only to the Malabar region. He had spread it all the way up to Coimbatore. But for the remonstrance of his mother, Tipu would have compelled his favourite Dewan Poornayya to have forsaken the religion of his forefathers."
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Life of Tipu Sultan—Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore, translated by Bernard Wycliffe quoted in Sandeep Balakrishna. 2013. Tipu Sultan : The Tyrant of Mysore. Chennai: Rare Publications.
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Mysorean invasion of Malabar
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