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Perur Pateeswarar Temple
Buchanan reports the seizure of temple gold and jewels while worship and the building survived.
Perur, Coimbatore · Tamil Nadu
Not established
As documented: date not establishedApproximate locality
10.9758°, 76.9147° · not a surveyed footprintHow to read this history
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The recorded chronology
Selected episodes. Rebuilding and later changes are distinguished from damage.
- Looting · intentional causeOpen this episode on the map ↗
During Tipu’s campaigns · exact date unresolved
Buchanan reports that Tipu plundered the temple’s gold and jewels and resumed its landed endowments.
eventAttributed · further checking neededBuchanan reports that Tipu plundered the temple’s gold and jewels and resumed its landed endowments.
This entry records looting, not demolition. The same paragraph describes the surviving temple, continued worship and a reported general destruction order that was not enforced. Loss of endowment income is not itself physical destruction.
- A Journey from Madras through Mysore, Canara and Malabar, volume II ↗Francis Buchanan · Volume II, printed p. 251, 29–30 October visit to Perur / Mali Chitumbra · Accessed 2026-09-28
dateUnknownDuring Tipu’s campaigns · exact date unresolved
Exact dating remains unresolved.
- A Journey from Madras through Mysore, Canara and Malabar, volume II ↗Francis Buchanan · Volume II, printed p. 251, 29–30 October visit to Perur / Mali Chitumbra · Accessed 2026-09-28
actorAttributed · further checking neededTipu Sultan
- A Journey from Madras through Mysore, Canara and Malabar, volume II ↗Francis Buchanan · Volume II, printed p. 251, 29–30 October visit to Perur / Mali Chitumbra · Accessed 2026-09-28
Location & last documented condition
Approximate locality; not a surveyed historic footprint.
- Perur Pateeswarar Temple — Wikipedia article and bibliography ↗Wikipedia contributors · History / damage account; see source context · Accessed 2026-09-28
Present physical condition has not been independently established in this review.
Source context
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- A Journey from Madras through Mysore, Canara and Malabar, volume II ↗Francis Buchanan · Francis Buchanan · 1807
Public-domain original OCR consulted: printed pp. 96, 251, 332 and 352. Observations from the 1800 journey, made under East India Company patronage after the conquest. Buchanan observed places and recorded accounts of earlier events; he did not witness these attacks. His descriptions contain openly hostile judgments of Tipu and Hindu worship, which are not adopted as established motives. His p. 251 also says a reported general demolition order was not enforced.
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