In a move to placate the Hindus here—actually, he needed their support after his financial humiliation in the Third Mysore War of 1791, which was when he had to submit his two sons to the British—he gave a large donation to the Sringeri Shankaracharya Mutt. Our secular-progressives uphold this as an instance of Tipu’s non-sectarian noble quality. But there’s tons of evidence on the other side:
