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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Along the roads it was hard to tell that there had been fighting. Farmers tilled fields, animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Happy War | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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