Perhaps the most infamous acts of anti-Christian persecution by Muslims were committed by Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, against the Mangalorean Catholics. Tipu was widely reputed to be anti-Christian. The captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Srirangapatna, which began on 24 February 1784 and ended on 4 May 1799, remains the most disconsolate memory in their history.[287]