Captivity of Kodavas at Seringapatam
Historians doubt the letter as sixty-thousands to seventy-thousands kodavas living in Coorg as genuine before arrival of British missionary to India.
[2][3][4][5][6] Uncaptured Coorgis who were leaderless rallied around the 24-year-old prince Dodda Vira Rajendra, who had escaped from Tippu's prisons with his family.
The forced displacement and mass imprisonment of Coorgis, Mangalorean Christians and Nairs ended with the Siege of Seringapatam (1799).
The conquest of Coorg, by Hyder Ali, the ruler of Mysore and father of Tipu Sultan, lasted 3 months and eight days.
He gave gifts to the twelve barons who had been under the king, levied money from them and returned to his capital Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) in Mysore.
[13] After occupying the country, Hyder gave it to Appaji Raja, the leading man, appointed him the 'Raja of Great Coorg',[13] collected annual tribute [12] and established a garrison there under a Commandant.
Hyder got the princes removed from Madikeri (Mercara) to Goruru (in Hassan region) so as to deprive the Coorgs of a rallying point.
[15] In response Tipu sent some troops with general Janulabdin (also called Zain-ul-Abidin Shushtary or Zain-ul-Abedin Shustri) into Coorg to the Faujdar's relief.
[21] The fleeing army of Tippu Sultan left behind a large cache of arms and ammunition, including cannonballs imported from France.
The British administrator Mark Wilks gives it as 60,000 Kodavas, Historian Lewis Rice arrives at the figure of 85,000, while Mir Kirmani's score for the Coorg campaign is 80,000 men, women and child prisoners.
[24] According to Punganuri, only about 500 souls (men, women and children) whom Tipu caught in Coorg were all made Asadulahi/Asadulai (converts) and sent (captives) to Bangalore, Seringapatam, Chitradurga, Colaram, Hosakote and Nandidurga in different groups.
[30] Nagappayya, Subbarasaya's nephew who was in-charge of Coorg (Kodagu), was found guilty of corruption and so condemned to the gallows by Tipu.
[29] Meanwhile, the Kodagu Raja also engaged Tipu's troops and send them away from Coorg, its extremes being Bisle ghat in the North to Manantvadi in the South.
There he ordered some of the inhabitants to be made Asadulai (captured and converted), placed Officer Ghafar in command there and had a wooden fort or stockade built.
[33] In a letter to Runmust Khan, in early 1786, Tipu himself stated:[35] We proceeded with the utmost speed, and, at once, made prisoners of 40,000 occasion-seeking and sedition-exciting Koorgs (Coorgis), who alarmed at the approach of our victorious army, had slunk into woods, and concealed themselves in lofty mountains, inaccessible even to birds.
At one time he writes: "There are 500 Coorg prisoners, who must be thrown, in parties of fifty, into ten forts, where they must be dealt with in such a manner as shall insure their death in the course of a month or twenty days-such of the women as are young must be given to Musulmans; and the rest, together with their children, must be removed to, and kept in confinement, at Seringapatam, on a small allowance.
"[38] In another place he writes: "By the favor of the Almighty and the assistance of the Prophet, we have arranged and adjusted the affairs of the Taluk of Zaferabad in the most suitable [and satisfactory] manner; the tribe of Coorgs, to the number of fifty thousand kodava men and women, having been made captive, and incorporated with the Ahmedy class.
[40]Again to Budruz Zaman Khan he writes You will also make a daily allowance of one pice to such of the children of the Coorgs, between five and ten years old, as you may think proper.
[41]The following is a translation of an inscription on a stone found at Seringapatam, which was situated in a conspicuous place in the fort: Oh Almighty God!
Be their bodies the constant object of their cares [i.e., infest them with diseases], deprive their eyes of sight, make black their faces [i.e., bring shame].
[42]In 1790, Dodda Vira Rajendra signed a treaty with the British, who promised to protect his kingdom against Tipu's onslaught.
[31] According to the 1799 Asiatic Annual Register, the Assud Illahee (Asadulai) of Srirangapatana (Seringapatam) were converts and of two kinds: Ahmadis who were Carnatic Christians and the Mohammadies who were Coorgs.
[30] Their descendants, many of them now inter-married with the Mappilas and Bearys, are known as Kodava Maaple and constitute a very small minority in modern Kodagu.
(Persian) B'adaz fararl kuffar hukm shud ki baharbi Bani Khuraiza ravand ki 'ahad shikasta madadgariahzab namudand : lashkari Islani ishanra panzda shaban roz mahasaru kardand va kar bar ishan tang shud va bar hukrai S'ad-bin-M'aaz farod amadand.
