Edited sentence: He asserted that Tippu's "religious fanaticism and the excesses committed in the name of religion, both in Mysore and in the provinces, stand condemned for all time.He further asserts that the acts of Tippu that were constructive towards Hindus were largely political and ostentatious rather than an indication of genuine tolerance.His alliance with the French was supposedly aimed at achieving this goal by driving his main rivals, the British, out of the subcontinent.His bigotry, indeed, was so great that it precluded all ideas of toleration".Historian Hayavadana C.In 1780 CE he declared himself to be the Padishah or Emperor of Mysore, and struck coinage in his own name without reference to the reigning Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II.Kareem also notes that Tippu Sultan issued an edict for the destruction of Hindu temples in Kerala.Rao wrote about Tippu in his encyclopaedic work on the History of Mysore.Sharma writes that in his correspondence with other Islamic rulers such as Shah Zaman of Afghanistan, Tippu Sultan used this title and declared that he intended to establish an Islamic Empire in the entire country, along the lines of the Mughal Empire which was at its nadir during the period in question.The attitudes of Muslim ruler Tippu Sultan have been criticized as anti-Hindu.There are some historians who claim that Tippu Sultan was a religious persecutor of Hindus.While some Marxist historians claim that he had an egalitarian attitude towards Hindus and was harsh towards them only when politically expedient, In the first part of his reign in particular he appears to have been notably more aggressive and religiously doctrinaire than his father, Haidar Ali