Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, had been everyone’s icon. Chandan Gowda Chandan GowdaDemonising a cultural iconThrough the mysterious process of mythification seen in India, which frees individuals from their community identity in cultural memory, Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore (1750-1799), appeared as everyone’s icon. They exist for only tragic heroes like Tipu and other local chieftains who died at the hands of the British. The royal violence can lose anonymity in India’s charged communal politics, though, when the perpetrator of violence is a Muslim king, like Tipu Sultan, and create new kinship with the past victims. Ought Karnataka to celebrate Tipu Jayanthi?

Source: The Hindu November 08, 2016 20:11 UTC