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Captivity of Nairs at Seringapatam

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128:, and outlawed them. Furthermore, he offered privileges back to anybody who converted to Islam. This forced some Nairs and many members of the Hindu community to adopt Islam, and resulted in the first appearance of Islam in the Malabar countryside. Humiliated by these perceived slights imposed by the Sultan, the Nairs rose in rebellion. They harassed isolated block-houses set up by Hyder, raided, pillaged, and destroyed stores and munition dumps. 169: 187:"Your two letters, with the enclosed memorandums of the Nâimâ (Nair) captives, have been received. You did right in causing a hundred and thirty-five of them to be circumcised, and in putting eleven of the youngest of these into the Usud Ilhye band, and the remaining ninety-four into the Ahmedy troops, consigning the whole, at the same time, to the charge of the 302:
had halted in the Malabar to enforce his proclamation. General orders were issued to his army that 'every being in the district without distinction should be burned, that they should be traced to their lurking places, and that all means of truth and falsehood, force or fraud should be employed to
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helped them to rehabilitate themselves in their new surroundings. On the other hand, Nairs retreated into the jungles where they engaged in guerrilla warfare against the invading Mysorean army. Tipu further organised a regular and systematic hunt for Nairs. He then proceeded to
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but when he was intercepted he killed himself. Then his body was dragged round the camp and hung from a tree. Tipu besieged the Kadattanad Raja's fortified palace at Kuttipuram, and 2,000 Nairs—forced to surrender after a resistance of several days. Several
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and in 1782 of Bednur. The British approached him and he rejected their overtures, but after Hyder's death he agreed to support them and handed over Bednur to them.
265:) people joined the Coorgs. Tipu sent Gulam Ali into Malabar but en route Gulam was attacked by the Coorgs. Gulam managed to reach Malabar where he burnt down the 257:
by way of Siddhesvara. where they took up strong positions, seized grain, men, women and children while burning houses that they pillaged. They set fire to the
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and other princes of the Padinjare Kovilakam. Tipu set 6,000 troops under his French commander, M. Lally to raise the siege, but failed to defeat Ravi Varma.
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ghat in 1767. Hyder quickly understood the Nair psyche and caste pride and decided to use it to facilitate conversions. To this end, he deprived Nairs of
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His proclamation was met with widespread resentment and consequently, the Hindus of Malabar rose in rebellion. Due to fear 30,000 Brahmins fled to
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and captured the Karanavappad of Manjeri. Their assaults were met with resistance by the Nairs of Calicut and southern Malabar led by
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In 1788, Tipu issued a proclamation to the Nairs of Malabar, wherein he outlined his new scheme of social reform.
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principality of Cannanore which owed nominal allegiance to Chirakkal. South Malabar was divided between the
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The following year in 1789 Tipu sent Gulam Ali, Gaji Khan and Darvedil Khan with troops into
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and was enlisted in the Asad-i-Ilahi (new converts) troops. Finding favour with
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and after celebrating the marriage of his son with the daughter of the
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faith and martial tradition. The captivity ended when Nair troops from
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from 1786 to 1799. They were subjected to forcible conversions to
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Select letters of Tippoo Sultan to various public functionaries
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under Burhan ud Din and Sayed Hamid. Tipu himself crossed the
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who had become rebellious, he heard of another rebellion in
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That same year (1789), when Tipu was marching against the
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effect their universal conversion'. The Raja of Cherkal (
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who had been taken prisoner by Hyder during the latter's
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and wealthy land owners fled to Travancore, where the
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Index

Nairs
Malabar
Tipu Sultan
Kingdom of Mysore
Sunni Islam
Ottoman Caliphate
Hindu
Travancore
Third Anglo-Mysore War
Malabar
Nair
Moplah
Zamorin of Calicut
Raja
Cochin
Sultan of Mysore
Hyder Ali
Palakkad
Malabar
Thamarassery
caste privileges
Paravas
carrying arms
Nair
Chirakkal
Malabar
Muslim
Hyder Ali
Chitaldroog

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