HinduPat PadShahi

This just shows your ignorance of history. It's utterly false to claim that cow-slaughter and beef consumption were socially acceptable in ancient Kerala. Multiple independent foreign eyewitness accounts spanning nearly five centuries observed that cows and eating beef in Kerala was strictly forbidden and punishable by death. As early as 1292–1294 CE, Marco Polo, while visiting the Malabar coast, records in The Travels of Marco Polo (Yule–Cordier edition, Vol. II, Chapter XVII): "The people are Idolaters, and many of them worship the ox, because (say they) it is a creature of such excellence. They would not eat beef for anything in the world, nor would they on any account kill an ox." (Img 1) Obviously this cannot be just a casual observation. His words "For anything in the world" and "on any account" don’t leave any ambiguity. Cow-slaughter and beef eating were absolutely prohibited in Kerala. A century later, Persian envoy Abdul Razzaq Samarqandi who went to Calicut between 1442–45 CE, described how cow-killing was a capital offense in Kerala: "The only crime is to kill cows and eat beef. If anyone kills a cow and it is found out, that person is immediately put to death. They venerate cows to such an extent that they rub the ashes of its dung on their foreheads (God's curses upon them)." Russian merchant Athanasius (Afanasy) Nikitin who visited Kerala from 1466-72 CE, independently confirmed the same prohibition: "The Hindoos eat no meat, no cow flesh, no mutton, no chicken." Interestingly Nikitin points out that the only flesh eaten at banquets in Malabar was Pork and that Hindus never ate with Muslims! (Img 2) "The banquets were all on pork; and pigs are in great abundance. They take their meals twice a day, but not at night, and drink no wine nor mead; but with Mahommedans they neither eat nor drink.” Nikitin even points out that Hindus would not even let Mahommedans look into their pot, or look at their food and if this happened, they would not eat that food anymore! Even as late as the 19th c. when Jesuit missionary F. (Father) Clifford of Society of Jesus travelled to Malabar region to reestablish missions in Madura, he observed that the “Pariah” (lower castes) had become accustomed to the Europeans and their modes of life but even they would be outraged and it would deeply “shock their peculiar prejudices” if a European Priest ate beef in front of them. The Jesuit priests who met Clifford said they had never even tasted meat, or wine, but lived entirely on rice and fish - to avoid social outrage. This tells you how important beef prohibition was even to lowest class Hindu society in medieval Malabar region. (Img 3) Kerala’s own temple inscriptions reinforce this fact. 12th c. Inscriptions from Tiruvidaikkodu temple and Kaliyangadu temple specifically warn that obstructing temple charity incurs a sin equal to killing a tawny cow because cow-slaughter was regarded as the ultimate sin. (Img 4) Cow-killing & beef eating were always religiously prohibited, socially taboo, and strictly punishable in Kerala. Tipu forcing Kerala's Hindus to eat beef was one of the most heinous religious crimes. Stop trying to defend the indefensible with false BS about history that you have no clue about.