How Tipu Sultan Helped Dalit Women Regain Their Honour From Upper Caste Oppression
To this day, Tipu Sultan is paying the price of disturbing the status quo of Kerala’s caste hierarchy and for liberating Dalit women from its oppressive clutches."
How Tipu Sultan Helped Dalit Women Regain Their Honour From Upper Caste Oppression
Critics of Tipu Sultan (and Haidar Ali) give examples of four major communities as proof of brutalities and religious bigotry of these father-son rulers – Christians of Coastal Karnataka, Nayars of Malabar (Kerala), Coorgis and Brahmins, particularly the Mandyam Iyengars of Melukote. The latter three are often clubbed together as Hindus. And then there is […]