#PVNarasimhaRao 1. Home minister, Shivraj Patil, suggested to Rao’s youngest son, Prabhakara, that ‘the body should be cremated in Hyderabad’. But the family preferred Delhi. After all, Rao had last been chief minister of Andhra Pradesh more than thirty years ago, and had since
2. worked as Congress general
secretary, Union minister, and finally prime minister—all in Delhi. On hearing this, the usually decorous Shivraj Patil snapped, ‘No one will come.’Kashmiri Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad, another aide of party president Sonia Gandhi, arrived.
3. He too requested the family to move the body to Hyderabad. An hour later, Prabhakara received a call on his mobile phone. It was Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Congress chief minister of Andhra Pradesh and no friend of Narasimha Rao’s. ‘I just heard about it,’ Reddy said,
The entirety of Tipu's Myth comes from a book that was written by Bhagwan S Gidwani's book, the Sword of Tipu, that was not based on ANY historical source, which was then popularised by a TV series of the same name made by one Sanjay Khan.
1. William Logan gives in his Malabar Manual a long list of temples destroyed by Tipu Sultan and his army.
"Kozhikode was then a centre of Brahmins. There were around 7000 Namboodiri houses of which more than 2000 houses were destroyed by Tipu Sultan in Kozhikode alone.
Sultan did not spare even children and women. Menfolk escaped to forests and neighbouring principalities. Mappilas increased many fold (due to forcible conversion).