Hyderabad 1948 | India's hidden massacre.

[Truth Finder]

Terrorists joining hands with enemies to break the country deserve anything less??

Like separatists in J&K.

Two different yardsticks!!!

 

[Sashan]

Terrorists joining hands with enemies to break the country deserve anything less??

Care to explain as I just came off reading some pages after the release of this book Blood Telegram by Gary Bass which incidentally happened just today after a long wait.

 

[Spring Onion]

Reporting in English is nothing but jugglery of words. To some people it's invasion, but to the majority(to the 90% population of Telangana); it's accession.

Actually we are NOT living in princely states anymore Technically my point is very much right. Does this excuse give any army the right to invade another country??

 

[saurav]

If it was the case the local Hindu population would have revolted against him and they had the right to do so.

The funniest excuse you put forward nullify the above because its amusing why only after partition this excuse came to surface.



Just a question to Indians here about the RED PART. does it give any excuse to Indian Army or any Army to invade another country??

Do you know the extent of Hyderabad state..? It was not just Hyderabad and few villages. Just look up the map and see how large it was. And do you think it was possible for a Nizam to oppress the natives of such a big territory and dream of not being held accountable..? Whole region was getting independent from years of oppression and here he was.. Killing his own people with utter shamelessness.

And the report credits "Nehru" for the Police action.. This blows the credibility of the report itself. Nehru being the sick idealist did not want to intervene. It was Sardar Patel who forced him to take action after the atrocities against Hindus kept accelerating. Had IA delayed its mission, much more Hindus were likely to be killed and raped and their villages razed by the razakars.

 

[sovcomflot]

Does this excuse give any army the right to invade another country??

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...8-indias-hidden-massacre-3.html#ixzz2fnIke1e0

spring,wasn't balochistan also forcibly conquered by Pakistan?

 

[chhota bheem]

Terrorists joining hands with enemies to break the country deserve anything less??

So now mukti bahini where hindus and they where responcible for the independence on east pakistan. What are you talking get the facts right atleast.

 

[INDIC]

Does this excuse give any army the right to invade another country??

Then why did Pakistan invade Kalat during march 1948.

 

[Truth Finder]

ahhhhhh So you finally came to the point

So Indian army committing mass murder of Muslims, mass rape of Muslims in an independent state of Hyderabad is justified and Pakistan giving support to natives who revolted against the brutal maharaja is NOT justified ??

))))))))))

Who is holding your super power Army back. Tell them to snatch J&K from Indian Army.

But,on a serious note, the history of Kashmir (not of Jammu and Ladakh) is too complex to draw a one-liner.

 

[saurav]

ahhhhhh So you finally came to the point

So Indian army committing mass murder of Muslims, mass rape of Muslims in an independent state of Hyderabad is justified and Pakistan giving support to natives who revolted against the brutal maharaja is NOT justified ??

))))))))))

Again.. It was not IA but the native Hindus who killed these razakars. IA was mandated to disarm any resisting force and thats exactly what they did. If thw hole population rises to kill the tyrants, they must have done something wrong to be killed like this . The hatred against razakars was more than one can imagine. And to think of it, Hindus were living rather peacefully under the same nizam for years until the last Nizam became adventurous and started killing Hindus for fun..

 

[INDIC]

Care to explain as I just came off reading some pages after the release of this book Blood Telegram by Gary Bass which incidentally happened just today after a long wait.

General Niazi gave written order to Pakistani army to massacre Hindus in East Pakistan. Pakistani soldiers usually proudly discussed the number of Hindus they killed during particular day in East Pakistan.

 

[Truth Finder]

Actually we are NOT living in princely states anymore Technically my point is very much right. Does this excuse give any army the right to invade another country??

To me it's accession.And,that's justifiable.

 

[saurav]

Actually we are NOT living in princely states anymore Technically my point is very much right. Does this excuse give any army the right to invade another country??

Yes.. If the neighbouring country is witnessing that a large chunk ( in this case 90 % of population ) are being systematically targeted. Not to forget some razakars were getting more adventurous and had started raiding the neighbouring villages in then Indian territory.

IA had no option but to intervene then in'48.. Just like we were forced to intervene in '71..

 

[Sukapha]

The Story of Kasim Razvi
By Narendra Luther

Kasim Razvi was the one man for giving Hyderabad its only traumatic experience in its history. More than anybody else, he invited the ‘Police Action’ on Hyderabad.

Razvi hailed from Uttar Pradesh and became a lawyer in Latur in Osmanabad, a district of the Hyderabad State. He became a member of the Majlis-e- Ittehad-ul Mussalmeen of which Bahadur Yar Jung was the president. Razvi was a highly emotional person. Once when the Bahadur Yar Jung came to Latur to set up the Party office there, Razvi offered his house for that purpose and starting throwing out his furniture in the street to vacate it.

President of the Majlis

On the sudden and untimely death of Bahadur Yar Jung in 1946, Razvi succeeded him as President of the party. He imparted a sharp militancy to it and delivered highly provocative speeches. He exhorted Muslims to remember that they had conquered India by sword and that they were destined to rule.

When India became independent in 1947, Nizam tried to become an independent ruler. Razvi encouraged him in his ambition. He declared that the waters of the Bay of Bengal would wash his feet. He also bragged that the Nizam’s flag would flutter on the Red Fort at Delhi.

‘Razakars’

Razvi fanned communalism in a State, which was generally known for its communal harmony. He created a para- military force composed of volunteers called ‘razakars’. Every razakar had to take pledge that he would lay down his life for the leader and the party and he would fight to the last to maintain the Muslim hegemony in the State. The razakars were given military training and they were armed with sticks, swords, and some with guns. Razvi was the Field Marshal of the outfit and like his followers wore khaki uniform.

When after protracted negotiations, the Nizam and the Government of India decided to enter a Standstill Agreement in 1947, Razvi’s razakars prevented the members of the State delegation from leaving for Delhi to sign it. They also manhandled the Prime Minister and others. They spread a reign of terror in the State and Razvi issued severe threats to everyone who dared to oppose or even differed from him. A young journalist, Shoebullah Khan was murdered by razakars because he wrote in favour of State’s integration with India.

Razvi’s power grew and he and his people came to wield increasingly greater influence with the Nizam and the his government. The moderate Prime Minister, Sir Mirza Ismail was hounded out of the State. So was Nawab Chhatari who had returned to Hyderabad for a second term as Premier in 1947.

In January 1948, Razvi imposed a new government on the State. Mir Laik Ali was appointed its Prime Minister. The Muslims affected by the Partition riots were encourage to come to Hyderabad. Many harassed Hindu families left the state for the safety of India.

Police Action

The Government of India launched the ‘Police Action’ against Hyderabad on 13 September 1948. Four days later, the Nizam declared an unconditional surrender and General J.N. Choudhuri was appointed the military Governor of the State.
All ministers and some prominent leaders of the Ittehad including Razvi were taken into custody.

After detailed investigation, three criminal cases were filed against Razvi and six others: the Aland Murder Case; the Shoebullah Khan Murder Case; and the Bibinagar Dacoity Case. A special tribunal with three judges -- one Christian, one Muslim, and one Hindu was constituted to try the accused. Later, the Government withdrew the Aland Murder case for want of sufficient evidence. Askar Yar Jung, a former member of the State Judicial Committee was appointed the defense counsel along with some others to assist him. At the argument stage, Razvi asked for the removal of the counsels and argued his own case.


Jail for Razvi

On 10 September 1950 the Tribunal awarded Razvi seven years hard labour in the case of the Bibinagar Dacoity Case, and life sentence in the Shoebullah Khan Murder Case. On appeal in the High Court, the life sentence was quashed but the sentence for seven years hard labour was upheld. The Razkar supremo was sent to the Chanchalguda Jail in the city, put in fetters and asked to cut grass in the jail compound.

Zahid Ali Kamil was a young advocate and an admirer of Razvi. On his own admission, he used to smuggle messages to and from Razvi in the jail. A copy of Razvi’s strong letter written to Nehru, the Prime Minister of India was smuggled out. So was his threat to resort to hunger strike for the harsh treatment meted out to the razakars by the Government. To put a stop to that, the Government shifted Razvi to Yervada Jail in Pune in 1954. He served the rest of his term there.

Deserted by followers

Razvi was released on 11 September 1957. Kamil went to Pune and drove him to his house in Adikmet in his car. He summoned a meeting of the general body of the party. Only about forty of the 140 members responded to the invitation. At the meeting he invited leading members of the Party to take up the Presidentship of the party. No one came forward. Razvi was so disappointed that he declared that he was willing to offer the job to any male Muslim above the age of twelve! Finally, Abdul Wahid Owaisi was made the president of the Party. Now his son, Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi is the president of the party. Thereafter, at a press conference, he announced that having no future in India, he would be leaving for Pakistan.

Leaves for Pakistan

Having settled the issue of party presidentship, Razvi left for Pakistan on 18 September –exactly to the day of the completion of the Police Action nine years ago. Kamil flew with him up to Mumbai and then saw him off.

Razvi received no reception in Pakistan, not even support, or recognition. He set up his legal practice amongst the refuges from India in Karachi. He died at the age of sixty-seven on 15 January 1970, unwept and unwept in a land far distant from the one which he had dreamt about making an independent Islamic kingdom.

 

[Spring Onion]

So now mukti bahini where hindus and they where responcible for the independence on east pakistan. What are you talking get the facts right atleast.

technically they supported the breaking of the country committed treason and gave support to the mukhti bhaini terrorists.

Indian state wont any Khalistan movement and its activities to break India.

 

[Pakistani E]

Hyderabad 1948: India's hidden massacreBy Mike Thomson

When India was partitioned in 1947, about 500,000 people died in communal rioting, mainly along the borders with Pakistan. But a year later another massacre occurred in central India, which until now has remained clouded in secrecy.

In September and October 1948, soon after independence from the British Empire, tens of thousands of people were brutally slaughtered in central India.

Some were lined up and shot by Indian Army soldiers. Yet a government-commissioned report into what happened was never published and few in India know about the massacre. Critics have accused successive Indian governments of continuing a cover-up.

The massacres took place a year after the violence of partition in what was then Hyderabad state, in the heart of India. It was one of 500 princely states that had enjoyed autonomy under British colonial rule.

When independence came in 1947 nearly all of these states agreed to become part of India.

But Hyderabad's Muslim Nizam, or prince, insisted on remaining independent. This outraged the new country's mainly Hindu leaders in New Delhi.

After an acrimonious stand-off between Delhi and Hyderabad, the government finally lost patience.

In addition, their desire to prevent an independent Muslim-led state taking root in the heart of predominantly Hindu India was another worry.

Members of the powerful Razakar militia, the armed wing of Hyderabad's most powerful Muslim political party, were terrorising many Hindu villagers.

This gave the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the pretext he needed. In September 1948 the Indian Army invaded Hyderabad.

In what was rather misleadingly known as a "police action", the Nizam's forces were defeated after just a few days without any significant loss of civilian lives. But word then reached Delhi that arson, looting and the mass murder and rape of Muslims had followed the invasion.

Determined to get to the bottom of what was happening, an alarmed Nehru commissioned a small mixed-faith team to go to Hyderabad to investigate.

It was led by a Hindu congressman, Pandit Sunderlal. But the resulting report that bore his name was never published.

A copy of the Sunderlal report Pandit Sunderlal's team concluded that between 27,000 and 40,000 died
The Sunderlal team visited dozens of villages throughout the state.

At a number of places members of the armed forces brought out Muslim adult males... and massacred them”

At each one they carefully chronicled the accounts of Muslims who had survived the appalling violence: "We had absolutely unimpeachable evidence to the effect that there were instances in which men belonging to the Indian Army and also to the local police took part in looting and even other crimes.

"During our tour we gathered, at not a few places, that soldiers encouraged, persuaded and in a few cases even compelled the Hindu mob to loot Muslim shops and houses."

The team reported that while Muslims villagers were disarmed by the Indian Army, Hindus were often left with their weapons.

In some cases, it said, Indian soldiers themselves took an active hand in the butchery: "At a number of places members of the armed forces brought out Muslim adult males from villages and towns and massacred them in cold blood."

The investigation team also reported, however, that in many other instances the Indian Army had behaved well and protected Muslims.

The backlash was said to have been in response to many years of intimidation and violence against Hindus by the Razakars.

In confidential notes attached to the Sunderlal report, its authors detailed the gruesome nature of the Hindu revenge: "In many places we were shown wells still full of corpses that were rotting. In one such we counted 11 bodies, which included that of a woman with a small child sticking to her breast. "

And it went on: "We saw remnants of corpses lying in ditches. At several places the bodies had been burnt and we would see the charred bones and skulls still lying there."

The Sunderlal report estimated that between 27,000 to 40,000 people lost their lives.

Indian Shiite Muslims take part in religious prayers at 'Ashoorkhana' in the Aza Khana Zehara in Hyderabad, on January 5, 2009. The structure, built by the seventh Nizam Mir Osman Ali Kahan to perpetuate the memory of his mother Amtul Zehra Begum A Shiite shrine built by the seventh Nizam to perpetuate his mother's memory
No official explanation was given for Nehru's decision not to publish the contents of the Sunderlal report, though it is likely that, in the powder-keg years that followed independence, news of what happened might have sparked more Muslim reprisals against Hindus.

It is also unclear why, all these decades later, there is still no reference to what happened in the nation's schoolbooks. Even today few Indians have any idea what happened.

The Sunderlal report, although unknown to many, is now open for viewing at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi.

There has been a call recently in the Indian press for it to be made more widely available, so the entire nation can learn what happened.

It could be argued this might risk igniting continuing tensions between Muslims and Hindus.

"Living as we are in this country with all our conflicts and problems, I wouldn't make a big fuss over it," says Burgula Narasingh Rao, a Hindu who lived through those times in Hyderabad and is now in his 80s.

"What happens, reaction and counter-reaction and various things will go on and on, but at the academic level, at the research level, at your broadcasting level, let these things come out. I have no problem with that."



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