For Hyderabad, India had to intervene because of the attrocaciies of muslims Rajakars over the hindu population not just in the state of hyderabad but in the Indian sides as well..
In the
1936-37 Indian elections, the Muslim League under
Muhammad Ali Jinnah had sought to harness Muslim aspirations, and had won the adherence of MIM leader
Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung, who campaigned for an Islamic State centred on the Nizam as the Sultan dismissing all claims for democracy. The
Arya Samaj, a Hindu revivalist movement, had been demanding greater access to power for the Hindu majority since the late 1930s, and was curbed by the Nizam in 1938. The Hyderabad State Congress joined forces with the Arya Samaj as well as the
Hindu Mahasabha in the State.
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Even as India and Hyderabad negotiated, most of the sub-continent had been thrown into chaos as a result of communal Hindu-Muslim riots pending the imminent partition of India. Fearing a Hindu civil uprising in his own kingdom, the Nizam allowed Qasim Razvi, a close advisor, and leader of the radical
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) Party, to set up a voluntary militia of Muslims called the 'Razakars'. The Razakars - who numbered up to 200,000 at the height of the conflict - swore to uphold Islamic domination in Hyderabad and the Deccan plateau in the face of growing public opinion amongst the majority Hindu population favouring the accession of Hyderabad into the Indian Union.[
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As the manpower and arsenal of the
Razakars grew, there was an escalation of violence between the Razakars and
Hindu communities. In all, more than 150 villages (of which 70 were in Indian territory outside Hyderabad State) were pushed into violence. In
Telangana, large groups of peasants, aided by the
Communist Party of India and
Andhra Mahasabha, revolted against local Hindu and Muslim landlords, and also came into direct confrontation with the Razakars, in what became known as the
Telangana Rebellion. “From the beginning of 1948 the Razakars had extended their activities from Hyderabad city into the towns and rural areas, murdering Hindus, abducting women, pillaging houses and fields, and looting non-Muslim property in a widespread reign of terror."
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On 4 December 1947,
Narayan Rao Pawar, a member of a Hindu nationalist organisation called the
Arya Samaj, made a failed attempt to assassinate the Nizam outside his palace.
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Noorani 2014, pp. 51-61.
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