Word: hyderabad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest plight of the parsimonious Nizam of Hyderabad was being relished by many an Indian who had never seen moths fly out of a tightwad's purse in U.S. vaudeville. The Nizam, they told one another, had stacked his private vault with some 250,000 rupees in Indian currency long before his country was grabbed by India. When he came to get it, however, the worms had got there first and the Bank of India refused to honor the half-eaten bills...
...your . . . account of "the happy war" in Hyderabad [TIME, Sept. 27], you printed a photograph of victor Chaudhuri which happens to be a photograph of Brigadier Dilip Chaudhuri, Military Attache at the Embassy of India, Washington...
...Game of Life." Five miles from Secunderabad, the Hyderabad army was to surrender officially. A shiny Buick brought Hyderabad's army commander, Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, a black-haired, black-mustached man who told me a month ago he would "fight to the end." He advanced to meet Major General Chaudhuri, commander of India's ist Armored Division and field leader of the invasion. They shook hands, lit cigarettes and talked quietly while spellbound villagers looked on. Said Chaudhuri: "You'll have to clean up the Razakars." El Edroos nodded, looking slightly pale...
There was no trouble. In the city of Hyderabad (where Moslems make up almost half the population), streets were deathly quiet. The Moslems were scared. Some barred and shuttered their homes. For weeks they had been fed rumors that the Indian army was capturing Razakar boys, putting gunpowder in their mouths and setting it off. It would take time before these people regained confidence...
...would probably salvage his wealth and royal trappings. Kasim Razvi faced a dimmer fate. In a broadcast to his followers on the morning of surrender he said: "This is the last time I shall be speaking to you." Then he disappeared. The next day he was captured by Hyderabad troops. Said he: "I gambled and lost...