‘US draw up new blueprint for hunting terrorists’. This can also belong to 18th century British. In May 2005, The Guardian, London, wrote, “In 1798, the British government sent Richard Wellesley to India as Governor General with special instruction to (invade, occupy Mysore) replace Tipu Sultan with a western puppet but first he has to justify the British public as decided in private”.
“Wellesley therefore began a campaign of vilification against Tipu portraying him as an aggressive Muslim monster, furious and one dimensional fanatic, perpetually on his tongue the projects of jihad, an intolerant bigot”, and many more of the kind.
The Guardian ends up saying, “Recent work by scholars has succeeded in reconstructing a very different Tipu than as invented by Wellesley.”
Z A KAZMI
Karachi
