After centuries of battles and struggles of various forms, India got rid of British rule. It was a moment of joy for all Indians, but it was tempered by the massacre of nearly ten lakh people in Punjab and Bengal — two regions which were partitioned between India and Pakistan. This is a fact that is well-known to the world. Over a period, many people, who migrated to India from Pakistan made several movies on the horrors of partition immortalising its effects in the minds of people.
A massacre of a similar kind was being perpetrated down south in Deccan. While Punjab and Bengal burnt days ahead of Sir Cyril Radcliffe set out his pen to draw a line dividing a civilisational India, Hyderabad was on a slow burn for several decades.
Ever since the British forced the Nizam to have an elected government, the fear of the majority community took root in the princely state. Baby steps taken by Bahadur Yar Jung by establishing Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen to assert the primacy of Muslims in…
