Word: hyderabad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
Fifty-five retainers were sent on ahead to ready the Nizam's 100-room New Delhi palace (which has been mostly taken over by Indian government offices since India absorbed Hyderabad in 1948). Most of the Nizam's 70 wives wanted to go along, but the Nizam, explained an official, "decided to be selective." Only 15 were picked, along with ten of the Nizam's 36 children and some 56 physicians, barbers, nurses and servants, to join his three-airplane voyage to India's capital...
...Repeaters. Religious fanaticism was an expected obstacle in India's great democratic election experiment. Unexpected was the emergence of the Communist Party as Nehru's major parliamentary opposition. In the state assemblies of Travancore, Hyderabad and Madras (with the voting in 187 seats still uncounted), the Communists have captured 99 seats out of 658. Contrary to early fears, the huge electorate (176 million) have behaved with great orderliness at the polls, where their fingers were marked with indelible ink to prevent repeating, and where symbols have been substituted for the names of candidates on ballot boxes...
...former princely state of Hyderabad lies diamond-like on the plush-green tableland of southern India. In 1948 the Communists tried to grab Hyderabad. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sent in 10,000 police, outlawed the Communist Party, and jailed 6,000 Reds. The Communists switched from smash & grab to a confidence-man technique: through a phony People's Democratic Front they began sponsoring candidates for the first All-India general elections in history, an immense and impressive undertaking in which 173 million people (most of them illiterate) are marching to the polls in an election which will take three...
Last week Nehru, whose tough 1948 policy has been weakened by buttery handshaking with China's Comrade Mao, proved again that on home territory he knows very well what the Communists are up to. Visiting Hyderabad's Communist-dominated Warangal district, he spoke under great flower-draped portraits of himself and Gandhi, telling cheering crowds that the Communists "are a party of murder, arson and loot, not of progress." Nehru plainly considered Hyderabad a crucial test in schooling his people in democracy...