Gilbert, You have yet to provide verifiable evidence for your claim of the numbers involved in the alleged Manglorean "holocaust". Furthermore, your thesis is fundamentally flawed, because a holocaust suggests the Mangloreans were targetted by Tipu because of their religion. Again, here are is what is generally know and not disputed:
1) Tipu did attack the Manglorean catholics. What is not known or well accepted is the number of Magloreans killed. 2) Tipu's army was heavily supported by Catholic France in his struggle against the British. If we were to use your logic, can we presumably conclude that the Vatican was fundamentally responsible for the attack?! 3) The Manglorean christians lived peacefully for decades under Tipu and Tipu's fathers rule. 4) The manglorean christians decided to switch their allegience to the British and therefore constituted a threat to his kingdom. 5) The "Coorgs" who were a fiercely independent clan of mostly nature worshipers, were also subject to attacks by Tipu. However, yet again, the reason for the attacks by Tipu was that the Coorgs decided to make financial agreements with the British, rather than because of their religious beliefs. One will note that the Coorgs later went on to assume positions of prominent power in British India's coffee trade and armed forces. 5) Tipu has many hindu princes who held prominent positions in his kingdom. He was also involved in the restoration of many hindu temples. None of these broad, well accepted facts provides any communal motive for Tipu's attack on the Mangloreans. This is quite far removed from your unsubstantiated claim of a Manglorean holocaust! But then again, we have also witnessed your claims denying that churches were built on top of temples - even after substantial evidence was provided to you. Lets stick to facts rather than communal based opinion shall we? Marlon --- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Marlon, > > Thanks for reading the part III of the inquisition > in Goa and perhaps > the other two parts on this episode of Goa's > history. Your post was in > response to the plight and suffering of the > Manglorean (former Goan) > Catholics in North Canara. Your rather long post is > a narration about > your impressions of Tippu's rule. It does not give > details about the > Manglorean episode in 1784 in Seringapatam. It may > be humorous to you > but it is insanity to me to wipe out an entire > population because > allegedly "few leaders switched sides". And we are > constantly attacking > the Catholics for the Goan inquisition. Frankly you > have made my > point.:=)) Compared to Tippu- a. k.a. the tiger of > Mysore, the > Portuguese were pussy cats. :=)) ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################