India attacks Tipu.

As Karnataka gets closer to state elections, RSS head honchos have come up with a clever ploy to target the Tiger of Mysore, Tipu Sultan. The timing of the release of the book by a Muslim hater Mr Addanda C Cariyappa is interesting. The book 'Tipu Nija Kanasugalu' is published by Ayodhya Publications, an allegedly Muslim-hate publishing group, and it has a prelude by Bhyrappa and back page content by Chakravarthy Sulibele. Tipu Sultan is revered within the South Asian region as a symbol of resistance against colonisation by the British, even within India Tipu Jayanti (birthday) is still celebrated by Muslims, Sikhs, and secular Hindus to commemorate his struggle for freedom and rule of law. Last year, Pramod Muthalik, the Sri Ram Sene chief, and members of the extreme Hindu rightwing organisation were detained as they tried to disrupt the program of Tipu Jayanti at Bangaluru. In our columns on suppression of the Muslim community in India, we have regularly highlighted that the RSS cabal in India is trying to rewrite history and science to expunge the inferiority complex in Sangh Parivar about 2000 years of slavery in India. However, this narrative against the colonisation of India is now being strengthened to demolish four walls of history. We had highlighted the 'attack on Indian history by RSS' in a previous article which suggested the reasons for this new phenomenon. If we go into details of the RSS agenda being packaged for the Indian public, particularly from 2014, the BJP needs to demolish four walls of history and culture due to political exploitation. Nehru is to be stigmatised and discarded as a leader to ensure the Congress party doesn't make a meaningful comeback, British rule of India has to be projected as an inglorious past to overcome the inferiority complex, the Muslim rule and civilisational contribution to India is to be rubbished to keep Indian Muslim community on the defensive and pre-Muslim rule of India by Central Asian and Persian civilisations needs to be discarded to connect the Hindu youth with Maurya and Gupta empires. Coming back to the issue under discussion, the Muslim community in South India led by the former chairman of the District Wakf Board Committee Mr B'S Rafiulla filed a case against the publication of the said book in November, the publication stayed for a month; after an absurd case hearing by Bengaluru court, the book 'Tipu Nija Kanasugalu'- Real Dreams of Tipu, was cleared for release and...

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