Hyderabad was
once a proud Muslim state, owned by Muslims rulers and had no complaint
whatsoever from their ruling even by Hindu communities. Everything went on
according to the way it should have and no community or religion was targeted in
any sort of biasness. In the incident where British rule was the situation,
they allowed the king’s family to stay where he was and operate on how he
wished but to still be in accordance with them on notifying major decisions and
even at that time, nothing actually changed.
The change
actually took place when the concept of democracy was introduced. The leaders
of India were all for the notion of creating the best nation they could which
included area and people. Even though Hyderabad was a Muslim owned area, the Indian
government tried to persuade the ruler of Hyderabad to join its nation. Hyderabad
preferred to stay independent or to join Pakistan but India was having none of
that. To allow such a huge region to unite with it’s soon to be enemies or another
threat to its overall plan was not to be tolerated. 50000 murders later, India
had a firm grasp on Hyderabad. They accomplished this by forcing the wealthy Muslims
out of the area and the poor ones to work as slaves or perish. As for the ones
that opposed, they were
either tortured or worse, put to death. This included women and small children
who were brutally killed.
According to
a report issued by Sunderlal, he discovered that most Muslim dominated areas
had been cleared out with only corpses as the remains while the ones that were
of Hindu majority remained unscathed. Such is the tragedy of this mutiny to the
ruling family and the thirst for power of the Indians that they forced the
local Hindus to join in the killings and they did so.
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