Tipu Sultan, soon after gaining possession of…
February 1784 CE
Tipu expels the thirteen Goan priests from his kingdom.
They are issued with orders of expulsion to Goa, fined Rs. 200,000, and threatened with death by hanging if they ever return.
He also banished Fr. Joachim Miranda, a close friend of his father Hyder Ali.
In a letter to the Portuguese Government, Tipu writes that he had commuted the priests' sentences of capital punishment and ordered a fine of thirty million rupees instead.
According to a report of 1784, Tipu has driven twenty-six missionaries out of his state, three of whom had secretly gone to join the captives.
Two die en route and one is killed by a soldier.
The missionaries were warned that they faced the death penalty if they re-entered Tipu's kingdom.
On February 24, 1784, (Ash Wednesday), in a secret and well planned move, Tipu arrests a large number of Christians across the province of Canara and other parts of his kingdom.
Accounts of the number of captives range from thirty thousand to eighty thousand.
According to historian Kranti Farias, all arrests may not have been made on a single day, but instead carried out in stages.
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