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New Delhi, Nov 30 (PTI) History is “complicated” and the politics of the day often indulges in “cherry-picking facts” and to a considerable extent that has happened in Tipu Sultan’s case, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. He claimed a “particular narrative” about the former ruler of Mysore has been advanced over the years. In his address at the launch of the book ‘Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore Interregnum 1761-1799’ here, Jaishankar said there are some basic questions that “confront us all” today as to how much of “our past has been airbrushed”, how awkward issues have been “glossed over” and how “facts are tailored for regime convenience”. The book has been written by historian Vikram Sampath. The external affairs minister said, “In the last decade, the changes in our political dispensation have encouraged the emergence of alternative perspectives and balanced accounts.” “We are no longer prisoners of a vote bank, nor is it politically incorrect to bring out inconvenient truths. There are many more subjects on which the same degree of objectivity is needed,” he said. The minister said open-minded scholarship and a genuine debate are central to “our evolution as a pluralistic society and vibrant democracy”. Jaishankar underlined that Tipu Sultan is a “complex figure” in Indian history. “On one hand, he has a reputation as a key figure who resisted the imposition of British colonial control over India. It is a fact that his defeat and death can be considered a turning point when it came to the fate of peninsular India. At the same time, he evokes strong adverse sentiments, even today, in many regions, by some in Mysore itself, in Coorg and Malabar,” he said. Contemporary history writings, certainly at the national level, have focussed largely on the former aspect, “underplaying, if not neglecting,” the latter, Jaishankar claimed. “This was not an accident.” “History in all society is complicated and the politics of the day often indulges in cherry-picking facts. To a considerable extent that has happened in the case of Tipu Sultan,” he said. By highlighting the “Tipu-English binary” to the “exclusion of a more complicated reality, a particular narrative has been advanced over the years”, the minister said. Asserting that to call Sampath’s book a biography would be a serious understatement, he said, “It is something very much more, capturing the flavour of a fast-moving and complicated era but offering insights into politics, strategy, administration, sociology and even diplomacy.” Jaishankar said the book not only presents facts about Tipu Sultan for the reader to make their own judgement but also brings out the context in all its intricacy. In that process, Sampath would have had many “challenges of orthodoxy to overcome,” the minister underlined. “These, I must say, are not specific to the treatment of Tipu Sultan, how much of our past has been airbrushed, how awkward issues have been glossed over, how facts are tailored for regime convenience. These are basic questions which confront us all today,” he said. Jaishankar said that as a “product myself of an institution” that was at the centre of these “politically driven endeavours”, he could well appreciate the need to present an “actual representation” of history. There can be no doubt that Tipu Sultan was fiercely and almost consistently anti-British. But how much of it was inherent and how much a result of their allying with his local rivals, that is difficult to distinguish, he posited. To counter British ambitions, Tipu Sultan had no hesitation in collaborating with the French and that makes a “straightforward anti-foreign narrative” very difficult to assert, he said. Jaishankar also touched on the foreign policy aspect of Tipu Sultan. At various points he reached out to the rulers of Turkey, Afghanistan and Persia for faith-based support, he said, adding perhaps the truth is that “the sense of nationhood, all of us have now, was simply not there then”. “When identities and awareness were so different at that time, force-fitting them into a contemporary construct seems more than a little challengeable,” the minister added. But, more touchy are a set of related issues about Tipu’s treatment of his people and those of neighbouring kingdoms, he said. There are Tipu’s writings, communications and actions that “attest to his mindset”. Even his diplomatic activities reflected his faith and identity in the strongest terms, Jaishankar said. “The author, in my view has been sensible in opening them up all to daylight,” he said. “After all, nothing is more revealing than the self-description of rulers, the nature of their orders and the content of their conversations. Undoubtedly there will also be policies and incidents of contradictory nature.” This larger assessment of Tipu’s character has to get that “balance right”, the minister said. Jaishankar said, “From the diplomatic world, I am most struck and grateful for the information and insights provided in this volume about Tipu’s foreign policy.” In India, people have tended to study mainly post-Independence foreign policies, he said, adding “who knows, perhaps this too was a conscious choice”. The fact is that many of the kingdoms and states in India forayed into international affairs in previous centuries in pursuance of their particular interests. And some continued to do so even till Independence, he asserted. Jaishankar said the interaction of Tipu’s emissary with their French and Turkish counterparts is fascinating, adding that Tipu’s expectations from his foreign partners and the incentive he offers them “tells us something about his mindset”. “There are lessons about the importance of accurately understanding global developments. On crucial occasions, Tipu was actually caught on the wrong side of the events in France,” he said. Jaishankar said that he got to know from the book that French emperor Napoleon had written to Tipu Sultan. But he never got those letters, he said. “Ironically, the British as is their habit, stole many things.” Ironically, Tipu’s fate was decided largely by diplomacy since the British created such an all-encompassing coalition. That he was left “so friendless at the end should itself be a cause for introspection”, he said. PTI KND NSD NSD This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. 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You could watch baseball for 100 years, and some of the readers here come pretty close, and you would never see a right-handed hitter have the season Aaron Judge did. The Yankees ’ captain was rightfully announced as the 2024 American League Most Valuable Player today, his second time capturing the honor and becoming the first Yankee since Mickey Mantle in his Triple Crown 1956 to do so unanimously. Hitting .322/.458/.701 with 58 bombs will do that, as Judge put up a season better than anything Albert Pujols, Mike Trout, Alex Rodriguez, Mike Schmidt, Joe DiMaggio, or any righty since the Roaring ‘20s had done. The MVP Award shouldn’t just be the WAR Award, but by fWAR, Judge (11.2) was almost a full win better than runner up Bobby Witt Jr. (10.4), who himself had an all-time, historically remarkable season — one better than many past MVP campaigns by others. Witt just had the best season by a Royal in franchise history and there are some names on that list, and Bobby wasn’t even close* in the MVP race this year. That’s how good Judge was. *Though somewhat amusingly, Witt was the unanimous second-place winner, taking all 30 of those votes. MLB’s capstone award this year follows Judge’s win in 2022, bookending a three-year stretch of play that but for one dumb block of concrete could sit among the most dominant runs in this sport. Since the beginning of that contract year, Judge has two MVPs, a 202 wRC+, 27.0 fWAR (!!), and missed those 56 games last year — and who knows if he was truly 100 percent when he did come back. Judge’s teammate Juan Soto heads into free agency with a feather in his cap in his own right, finishing third in the voting for his third top-five finish in his first seven seasons. His defensive game might keep him from ever reaching the very top of the vote, but a 26-year-old with multiple top-five MVP runs is exactly why he’s going to make the money he’ll get. Baltimore’s Gunnar Henderson and Cleveland’s José Ramírez finished fourth and fifth, respectively. There was also a unanimous decision in the Senior Circuit, as Shohei Ohtani took home the NL MVP over the Mets’ Francisco Lindor. It was Ohtani’s third time winning the award—the first in MLB history by an exclusive DH—and put him in a very exclusive club. Ohtani is just the 12th player in history to take home MVP honors three times, and the second after Hall of Famer Frank Robinson to win both the AL and NL versions of the award. It may be sour grapes after seven seasons, but had Judge won the 2017 AL MVP, which I believe he should have, he would join the three-time-winner club with Ohtani tonight. Alas. The end-of-season hardware has been handed out, and all the individual accolades Judge could be given he has. The trophy case is a little more full, but we all know the one piece missing from his collection. He’ll get the chance to chase it again in a few months.Sinn Fein ‘ignored role of 3,000 deaths in damaging community relations’
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California is bracing for more snow and rain this weekend while still grappling with some flooding and small landslides from a previous storm. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for California's Sierra Nevada through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at high elevations. Thousands remained without power in the Seattle area on Saturday after a “bomb cyclone” storm system hit the West Coast earlier in the week, killing two people. Parts of the Northeast and Appalachia also began the weekend with heavy precipitation. Pakistan partially stops mobile and internet services ahead of pro-Imran Khan protest ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it is suspending mobile and internet services “in areas with security concerns” as supporters of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan gear up for a protest in the capital. The government and Interior Ministry made the announcement on X, which is banned in Pakistan. Sunday's protest is to demand Khan's release. He has been in prison for more than a year but remains popular. His supporters rely heavily on social media and messaging apps to coordinate with each other. Pakistan has already sealed off Islamabad and shut down major roads and highways connecting the city with Khan's power bases. Here's what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. But it’s a far-from-perfect arrangement, with many parties still unsatisfied but hopeful that the deal will be a step in the right direction. 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Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas issued the order after considering the plea filed by Naveen Babu's wife Manjusha seeking a CBI probe into Naveen's death. The court also sent a notice to the CBI. The court dismissed Manjusha's request to stay the submission of the final report by the police team. The court stated that the investigation should continue and that the court has the authority to intervene even if the charge sheet is submitted. The court will consider the petition again on December 6. It will hear the detailed arguments after examining the case diary. Pathanamthitta native Naveen Babu, who was the Kannur ADM, was found hanging inside his quarters in Kannur on October 15. In her petition, Manjusha raised the suspicion that her husband may have been murdered. Accused has high political influence, CBI should investigate the case: Manjusha High Court: Isn't this a suicide case? Manjusha: I suspect that my husband was murdered. There are facts to support it. High Court: Why are you demanding a CBI probe? Manjusha: I'm demanding a CBI probe as PP Divya, the accused, has high political influence. She is a district committee member of the CPM and state joint secretary of the Janadhipathya Mahila Association. She is a senate member of the Kannur University. She also holds various other posts. Hence, I am not expecting an impartial investigation from the police. High Court: Didn't the police assign a Special Investigation Team to investigate the case? Manjusha: The special team is just a name. Most of its members are from the local police. The investigating officer is an inspector who ranks below the accused in the protocol. The investigating officers are fabricating evidence to protect the accused. They did not take any action even after the name and signature of Prashanthan, the witness, changed.