"The list of the chiefs of every province or district contained only Muslim names like Sheikh Ali, Sher Khan, Muhammad Syed, Meer Hussain, Syed Peer, Abdul Karim, and so on. There was nary a...non-Muslim name."
— Tipu Sultan

January 1, 1970

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William McLeod who was appointed by the East India Company Government as the Superintendent of the Land Revenue department after Tipu’s death. in: S. Balakrishna, Seventy years of secularism. 2018.