Assam Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma who is campaigning in poll-bound Karnataka, met Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Veerendra Heggade, an educationist and offered prayers at the Manjunatha Swamy Temple
The debate around Tipu Sultan, the erstwhile 18th-century ruler of Mysore has taken centre stage in the political corridors of Karnataka.
The Kodava people or Kodavas are an ethno-linguistic group from the region of Kodagu in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, who natively speak the Kodava language. They are traditionally land-owning agriculturists and patrilineal, with martial customs.
The Captivity of Kodavas (Coorgis) at Seringapatam was the period of capture, deportation, and imprisonment of Kodava Takk speaking Coorgis who rebelled against Tippu Sultan, the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, they were caught during a number of attempts to suppress their rebellion in the 1780s.
The rebels and their families were subjected to forced deportation (forced marches) from Coorg to Seringapatam, some of the rebels were executed. There were atrocities committed against Coorgi captives in the prisons, which included Coorgi women and children who were placed under the hostile men of the Sultan
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