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Ash Wednesday ushers in Lent which commemorates the period during which Christ lived in the desert fasting and meditating before his...

Kanara Christians are alleged to have loaned Rs 330,000 to Mathews, presumably in Mangalore.  This charge appears as a footnote in a...

On May 4, 1783, Campbell wrote: “There are a number of Native Christians here who had been formerly attached to the Artillery, 34 of them...

Muslim communities the world over adopted a unique and ancient practice by which slave children were separated from their families at a...

With the aim of disciplining his chelas in the European style of warfare, Haidar recruited, forcibly and otherwise, English soldiers and...

On June 30, 1782, about 300 English sailors, prisoners of the French Admiral Suffren, were offloaded into Haidar’s custody at Cuddulore....

Following Tipu’s return from Mangalore sometime in mid-1784, Scurry was transferred to the newly formed lashkar-i-ahmadi composed of...

In March 1784, Christians all over Tipu Sultan’s saltanat-i-khudadad (God-given-kingdom) were arrested and deported to Srirangapatna....

The Barkur Manuscript is an old account of the Captivity narrated by a captive who survived or escaped from exile. The copy reproduced...

In a certain year, on the 30th of Mai (a Tulu month corresponding to February-March) 1784, in one and the same night all the Christians...

Subtle details suggest that the author was a captive who served in the lashkar-i-ahmadi , and escaped circa 1789 during Tipu’s Malabar...

Barkur Manuscript 80,000              Moore 1905: 41 Ravenshaw               80,000              Silva 1958: 223 Pe Jose Mendes       ...

Tipu’s operation was so sudden, swift, and comprehensive that the captives were caught totally off guard. Desperation, ingenuity, and...

Ravenshaw, the Collector of South Kanara, appended a number of orders passed by Tipu’s amildars  auctioning properties confiscated from...

The most obvious person who could provide an answer as to why the Captivity was ordered would be the one who ordered it: Tipu Sultan....

In December 1783, General Mathews, landing at Mirjan, captured Kanara’s coast from Karwar to Kundapur, Nagar above the ghat, and finally...

That it is about 150 years since the Roman Catholic religion is established in this province. Your petitioner’s forefathers were formerly...

The first two paragraphs concern Pe Mendez’s memorial to Buchanan in which he had forged the signatures of the petitioners. The next...

Men Boys Women Girls Total MANGALORE/ BANTWAL Rosario, Mangalore 650 424 807 361 2242 Milagres, Mangalore 500 267 444 257 1468 Omzur 344...