Why India must undo its long silence over the massacre of Muslims after Hyderabad integration in 1948

The atrocities against Muslims after the Nizam’s rule was ended 75 years ago set the template for mass violence in India in the years to come.

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Why India must undo its long silence over the massacre of Muslims after Hyderabad integration in ’48

The atrocities against Muslims after the Nizam’s rule was ended 75 years ago set the template for mass violence in India in the years to come.

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Minority alliances, Police Action, and the troubled past of Dalit Razakars in Hyderabad

Both Ambedkar and Shyam Sundar feared the ‘tyranny of the Hindu majority’ and tried to negotiate it in different ways. The label of ‘Razakar’ never left Shyam Sundar and eventually contributed to his ‘convenient’ marginalisation and forgetting.

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Minority alliances, Police Action, and the troubled past of Dalit Razakars in Hyderabad

Continuing our Deccan Series in collaboration with the Khidki Collective, this set of six articles presents alternative perspectives on the 1948 Police Action i

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Teaser for propaganda ‘Razakar’ released by BJP’s Bandi Sanjay

The teaser paints a very disturbing image, feeding into the right-wing narrative that Muslims under the Razakar militia headed by Qasim Razvi were only indulging in atrocities against Hindus before the state’s annexation to India on 17 September 1948.

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Teaser for propaganda ‘Razakar’ released by BJP’s Bandi Sanjay

The teaser for the upcoming film ‘Razakar: Silent Genocide of Hyderabad’ on events surrounding the annexation of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad was r

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There is more to Hyderabad state’s history than BJP’s 'Liberation Day' narrative

A walk through the history of Telangana, during and after the state of Hyderabad’s annexation to India on September 17, 1948. Yusuf Y Lasania writes.

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There is more to Hyderabad state’s history than BJP’s 'Liberation Day' narrative

The year was 1947. Mohd Khaja Moinuddin, a student of the state-run City Science College, could have chosen a comfortable life. As a Deshmukh or Dora — a landlo

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