A nondescript traffic junction named after the 90-year-old state-owned Mysore sugar factory, became popular across the state of Karnataka and beyond due to a new gateway erected in the run-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Mandya on March 12th. The local BJP office chose this junction to install one of the four Mahadwaras (Grand Gateways) welcoming the Prime Minister and called it the ‘Uri Gowda and Dodda Nanje Gowda Mahadwara’. It was supposed to honour the two Vokkaligas that the state’s ruling party has begun to claim as having killed Tipu Sultan, the 18th century ruler of Mysore (now Mysuru). However, colonial and Indian archival records from the 18th century onwards as well as scholarship on Mysorean history by several historians have established that it was the British army that executed Tipu Sultan on 4 May, 1799 during the fourth Anglo-Mysore War.