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Former good articleCaptivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam was one of the Philosophy and religion good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
September 2, 2009Peer reviewReviewed
October 4, 2009Good article nomineeListed
March 18, 2011Peer reviewReviewed
August 8, 2024Good article reassessmentDelisted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 26, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that during the Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam, 30,000 of the captured 60,000 Christians were forcibly converted to Islam by Tipu Sultan?
Current status: Delisted good article

Jamalabad fort, way to Srirangapatnam????

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In the article it is mentioned that Jamalabad fort steps was the route the Mangalorean Catholics had travel on their way to Srirangapatnam. How can this be possible when those steps lead to the hill top. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skbhat (talkcontribs) 10:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No! Jamalabad Fort was a waiting point. There was a camp in the area. Those steps do not lead to Seringapatam. Joyson Noel Holla at me! 13:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Starting review. 16:14, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Initial comments

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This is quite a long document, but it appears to be well referenced and well illustrated. I will therefore go through the article in more depth, section by section, but leaving the WP:Lead until last. This might take a few days. Pyrotec (talk) 21:11, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Initial comments

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This is quite a long document, but it appears to be well referenced and well illustrated. I will therefore go through the article in more depth, section by section, but leaving the WP:Lead until last. This might take a few days. Pyrotec (talk) 21:11, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At this point I'm only concentrating on "problems" and ignoring the good points - they will be covered in the final summary.

  • Background -
  • Under Hyder Ali-
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • Causes -

....to be continued. Pyrotec (talk) 21:44, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • This first paragraph appears to show POV: it states "Tippu had also participated in the conquest of Mangalore along with Hyder in 1768, and was aware of the treachery of the Mangalorean Catholics towards the sovereign, and their help to the British" whereas in Under Hyder Ali it is stated that only some were condemned.
  • Execution of orders -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • Confiscation of property and destruction of churches -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • Journey from Mangalore to Seringapatam -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • 'The 15 year captivity -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • End of captivity and re-establishment -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • Criticism of Tippu -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • Criticism of the Christians -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • Remembrance of captivity -
  • Appears to be compliant.
  • Accounts of the Captivity -
  • Are these two long quoations really needed?

Overall summary

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GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria


A comprehensive, well-referenced article.

  1. Is it reasonably well written?
    A. Prose quality:
    B. MoS compliance:
  2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
    A. References to sources:
    A well-referenced article
    B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
    A well-referenced article
    C. No original research:
  3. Is it broad in its coverage?
    A. Major aspects:
    B. Focused:
  4. Is it neutral?
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. Is it stable?
    No edit wars, etc:
  6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
    A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
    Well-illustrated
    B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
  7. Overall:
    Pass or Fail:

Congratulations on the quality of the article: well done!. I'm awarding GA-status, and I'm sorry for the length of time to carry out the review. Pyrotec (talk) 15:51, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Genocide

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More than half of the captives were massacred by Tipu's army. Then why on earth this article is titled "Captivity"? It should be titled something like, say, "Genocide of Mangalorean Catholics" or something similar. - Thazhemon (talk) 01:42, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edits

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I will be removing (or contradicting) many of the sources based on the viewpoints espoused in the most reliable (and recent) evaluation of the subject —— K.M., Lokesh (2008). "THE CAPTIVITY OF THE CANARA CHRISTIANS UNDER TIPU SULTAN: A STUDY IN THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE CATHOLIC OF CANARA". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 69: 475–485. ISSN 2249-1937. Noting that this article has been also cited as a recent review of the claim of the ‘captivity’ and conversion of Canara Christians by Janaki Nair. None of the cited scholarship are by historians, so reputed or over venues, so reputed. TrangaBellam (talk) 11:46, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Believe it or not, there is even a journal on Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations! A paper here[1] points out that Tipu Sultan did not single out only Canara Christians, but he also aksed all Christians in his territories and conquered territories to convert to Islam. He even asked the soldiers of his all-Christian battalion to convert. When the commander refused, he reduced the numbers in the battalion and eventually forced out the commander. The author concludes:

In the light of this information, it seems incorrect to suggest that Tipu ill-treated only the Christians of Canara.[18] Tipu seems rather to have adopted an almost uniform policy towards Christians.... Nevertheless, it is no doubt plausible that Tipu, when he heard, saw and believed that the Christians, whether European or Indian, were siding with the English or were not overtly sympathetic to his cause, would have been convinced that the war he waged against the English was two-pronged: on the one hand against the political colonization of south India and on the other against the spiritual advances made by Christianity. In fact, Tipu would have become aware by direct experience in Canara and Tamilnadu of the irrefutable historical fact that many Christian converts and their descendants were more eager to side with the English than to join with him to throw them out.

This is hardly the bigot he is made out to be. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:33, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ More, J. B. P. (2003), "Tipu Sultan and the Christians", Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 14 (3): 313–324, doi:10.1080/09596410305262

GA Reassessment

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.
  • >99% of the sources—an onerous dump of every hit in GBooks—fail to satisfy standards of scholarship on history especially for a topic as controversial as this. Passed about 13 years ago when standards of sourcing were very lax etc. Sources like Saldanha (1933), Goel (1993), Sinha (1949) are barely reliable; hell, even contemporary British gazeteers etc. have been used indiscriminately! (TrangaBellam (talk) 8 April 2022
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.