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`Tipu did not love Kannada'

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Kannada litterateur M. Chidananda Murthy has said that Tipu Sultan's fad for Persian did not end in making it an official language. He changed the names of towns such as Chitradurga, Bellary, Devanahalli, Calicut in Kerala and Nazarbad (Mysore) to Persian. Quoting historian M.H. Gopal, he said Tipu Sultan appointed 29 Asafs (senior revenue officers) from only among Muslims, who did not know the language. This resulted in the decline of revenues. Quoting from the Karnataka State Gazetteer published in 1982 (edited by Suryanath U. Kamat), he said that while Tipu might not have been anti-Kannada, he did not love the language.

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