Frasi di Fateh Ali Tipu

Fateh Ali Tipu, conosciuto anche come Tigre del Mysore, Tippu Sultan o Tippoo Sahib, , è stato un sultano indiano, de facto leader del regno di Mysore dal 1782, quando morì il padre, sino al 1799.

Egli è riconosciuto come uno dei più grandi governatori Sud Asiatici di tutti i tempi. Era il primo figlio di Hyder Ali e della sua seconda moglie, Fatima o Fakhr-un-nissa.

Ali Tipu, oltre ad essere un intellettuale, fu anche un soldato e un poeta, parlando fluentemente kannada, indostano, persiano, arabo, inglese e francese. Nonostante la maggior parte della popolazione fosse induista egli era un devoto musulmano e acconsentì, su richiesta francese, alla costruzione della prima chiesa cristiana a Mysore. In virtù dell'alleanza con i francesi e dell'ostilità verso gli inglesi, sia Fateh che il padre Hyder Ali non esitarono ad utilizzare il loro esercito, addestrato dagli stessi francesi, contro l'Impero Maratha, Malabar, Coorg, Sira e Bednur.

Durante l'infanzia di Tipu, suo padre raggiunse una grande posizione di potere a Mysore ed alla morte di quest'ultimo, nel 1782, Tipu gli succedette a capo di un grande regno che andava dal fiume Krishna sino al mare d'Arabia ed all'Oceano Indiano.

Egli rimase sempre un implacabile nemico della Compagnia britannica delle Indie orientali, rinnovando anche antichi conflitti mai sopiti col vicino regno di Travancore nel 1789. Durante la Terza guerra anglo-mysore, Tipu venne forzato ad accettare un trattato umiliante, perdendo gran parte dei territori precedentemente conquistati, tra cui il Malabar e Mangalore. Egli inviò ambascerie a stati stranieri, tra cui l'Impero Ottomano, Afghanistan e Francia, tentando di levare nuove opposizioni al predominio inglese. Nella Quarta guerra anglo-mysore, le forze combinate degli inglesi e del nizam di Hyderabad sconfissero Tipu che rimase ucciso il 4 maggio 1799 nel tentativo di difendere coi suoi uomini il forte di Seringapatam.

✵ 20. Novembre 1750 – 4. Maggio 1799
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Fateh Ali Tipu: Frasi in inglese

“In the whole of the territories of the Balaghat (i. e., in the country below the ghats) most of the Hindu women go about with their breasts and heads uncovered. This is animal-like. No one of these women should hereafter go out without a fuller robe and a veil.”

Circular of Tipu Sultan to local administrators, quoted by K.N.V. Sastri, in his essay Moral Laws under Tipu Sultan https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100038/page/n292, in The Proceedings Of The Indian History Congress 6th Session, 1943
From Tipu Sultan's Decrees

“To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.”

As quoted in Encyclopedia of Asian History (1988) Vol. 4, p. 104
Variants:
It is far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.
It is far better to live like a tiger for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.
Variant mentioned in Tipu Sultan : A Study in Diplomacy and Confrontation (1982) by B. Sheikh Ali, p. 329

“Over 12,000 Hindus were 'honoured' with Islam. There were many Namboodiris (Brahmins) among them. This achievement should be widely publicised among the Hindus. There the local Hindus should be brought before you and then converted to Islam. No Namboodiri (Brahmin) should be spared. Also they should be confined there till the dress materials sent for them, reach you.”

Tipu Sultan's Letter dated March 22, 1788, to Abdul Kadir. cited in Bhasha Poshini of Chingam 10, 1099 (August, 1923), Article on Tipu Sultan by Sardar K.M. Panicker. Also quoted in Ravi Varma, " Tipu Sultan: As Known In Kerala" in Tipu Sultan: Villain or hero? : an anthology. (1993). http://web.archive.org/web/20170201045809/http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tipu/ch04.htm Also quoted in http://indiafacts.org/tipu-sultan-history-bigotry-barbarities-outside-karnataka/
From Tipu Sultan's letters

“People who have sinned against such a holy place are sure to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds at no distant date in this Kali age in accordance with the verse: Hasadbhih kriyate karma rudadbhir-anubhuyate (People do [evil] deeds smilingly but suffer the consequences crying).”

Tipu expressing grief against Maratha raid on Sringeri temple and matha. Quoted in Annual Report of the Mysore Archaeological Department 1916 pages 10–11 and 73–6 and History of Tipu Sultan https://books.google.com/books?id=hkbJ6xA1_jEC&pg=PA358 by Mohibbul Hasan, p. 358

“I am sending two of my followers with Mir Hussain Ali. With their assistance, you should capture and kill all Hindus. Those below 20 may be kept in prison and 5,000 from the rest should be killed by hanging from the tree-tops. These are my orders.”

Tipu Sultan's Letter dated December 14, 1788, to his Army Chief in Calicut: cited in Bhasha Poshini of Chingam 10, 1099 (August, 1923), Article on Tipu Sultan by Sardar K.M. Panicker. Also quoted in Ravi Varma, " Tipu Sultan: As Known In Kerala" in Tipu Sultan: Villain or hero? : an anthology. (1993).
From Tipu Sultan's letters

“With the grace of Prophet Muhammed and Allah, almost all Hindus in Calicut are converted to Islam. Only a few are still not converted on the borders of Cochin State. I am determined to convert them also very soon. I consider this as Jehad to achieve that object.”

Tipu Sultan's Letter dated January 18, 1790, to Syed Abdul Dulai: cited in Bhasha Poshini of Chingam 10, 1099 (August, 1923), Article on Tipu Sultan by Sardar K.M. Panicker. Also quoted in Ravi Varma, " Tipu Sultan: As Known In Kerala" in Tipu Sultan: Villain or hero? : an anthology. (1993).
From Tipu Sultan's letters

“Your two letters, with the enclosed memorandums of the Naimar (or Nair) captives, have been received. You did right in ordering a hundred and thirty-five of them to be circumcised, and in putting eleven of the youngest of these into the Usud Ilhye band (or class) and the remaining ninety-four into the Ahmedy Troop, consigning the whole, at the same time, to the charge of the Kilaaddar of Nugr…”

In a letter dated 8th Eezidy (February 13, 1790) addressed to Budruz Zuman Khan. (Selected Letters of Tipoo Sultan by Kirkpatrick)., also in C. NANDAGOPAL MENON, TIPU'S OWN TESTIMONY, 1990. in Tipu Sultan: Villain or hero? : an anthology. (1993).
From Tipu Sultan's letters

“The temples are under your management; you are therefore to see that offering to the gods and the temple illumination are duly regulated, as directed out of government grants.”

Circular of Tipu Sultan to local administrators on 1790. Cited in "India as a Secular State" Page 72 by "Donald Eugene Smith" https://books.google.com.sa/books?id=8zXWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA72
From Tipu Sultan's Decrees

“People who have sinned against such a holly place are sure to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds at no distant date in this Kali age in accordance with the verse: Hasadbhih kriyate karma rudadbhir-anubhuyate”

People do [evil] deeds smilingly but suffer the consequences crying
Tipu expressing grief against the raid on Sringeri temple and maatha by a contingent of the Marathas, called the Pindaris.
Origine: Quoted in Annual Report of the Mysore Archaeological Department 1916 pages 10–11 and 73–6 and History of Tipu Sultan by Mohibbul Hasan, p. 358

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