Word: kasim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 as his leader Razvi might look if the fire were gone from his eyes. He was captured the day before war's end with a sword in his hand...
...Nizam's powers were shorn, his ministers were under house arrest, but he 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...
...Indian and Hyderabad governments exchanged the customary notes. Nehru demanded that the Nizam disband his private Moslem army of Razakars, headed by Kasim Razvi. The Nizam refused. Nehru announced: "We will march!" and warned that any blood shed would be on the Nizam's head. The Nizam said it would be on Nehru's head...
...into Hyderabad. Tanks and armored cars spearheaded the marching columns over the hard, flat ground. Squadrons of the Indian air force provided air cover. The early stages of the invasion seemed to be going according to plan. There was little resistance either from the regular Hyderabad army or from Kasim Razvi and his Moslem fanatics. Instead, Hyderabad rushed a request to the United Nations Security Council to consider the dispute. For good measure, Hyderabad asked to submit the case to the International Court of Justice...
...formation of an organization called Majlis Ittehad-ul-Muslimin (Movement for Moslem Unity), which has become Hyderabad's dominant political party, and more. Its private army called Razakars (Volunteers) now numbers 150,000. Head of the Ittehad and field marshal of the Razakars is 46-year-old Kasim Razvi. Razvi is against submission to Indian rule in any degree. "Death with the sword in hand," he tells his followers, "is always preferable to extinction by a mere stroke of the pen." Razvi's position is so strong that the Indian government calls him "the Nizam's Frankenstein...