Next, he turned to the Razakars to implement what was the crux of his diabolical game plan: intimidation of the majority Hindu community that favoured accession to India and drive them out of Hyderabad State to make it a Muslim majority region. Within days the official Hyderabad Army (that had once boasted of having bombers that would attack Bombay and Delhi) collapsed ingloriously; the Razakars turned tail and fled. To call it an Army mission would be to give too much credit to the Hyderabad Army and the Razakars; it is suffice to call it “police action”—which lasted exactly 108 hours. : Around 2018, nearly 70 years after the Nizam’s Hyderabad was history, I met an individual in a distant foreign land. He was about 50 years old and must have been born at least 20 years after the demise of Hyderabad State.

Source: The Hindu October 02, 2022 05:05 UTC