Tipu is respected by a lot of people, but the genocide of Coorgis who opposed him is well known history.
There are a lot of movements against historically whitewashing his rule.
Even a child with a Mobile phone today can read what they want to read. What's whitewashing in this world?
That's with anything today, not just history.
Re:Mysorean Rockets
by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:11AM
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"Even a child with a Mobile phone today can read what they want to read."
And yet ignorance is just and high and snake oil salesmen have record profits
Re:Mysorean Rockets
by naruvimama on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:31AM
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A child searching for 'hakken kreuz' on wikipedia would be quite confused, if only the child would actually read what the man who came up with it wrote about it in his book.
A lot of motivated misinformation exists even for the most studied symbol.
Let us not underestimate the deliberate whitewashing or brownwashing that happens in India.
There is no deliberate washing of anything happening anywhere.
Try reading a book, it works.
Re:Mysorean Rockets
by naruvimama on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:18AM
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Try what the child above did, try searching for the word on wikipedia.
That isn't washing but victim blaming or blame transfer.
The area that is now Karnataka, or erst while state of Mysore/Deccan has a rich culture of knowledge and art that has been pervasive regardless of the political entities that have ruled over them.
Its also understandable as that area has relatively more peace, stability and tolerance compared to other areas in the sub-continent, hence economic-knowledge prosperity follows from there.
Tipu like many before him was the beneficiary of a long going positive social inertia. No doubt he was good, but he had a lot going for him.
Even as of now. Karnataka has done relatively compared to bulk of India since Independence.