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...guns, depending on rank and custom), the use of red automobile license plates, and the right to be called Your Highness. Each prince is allowed one palace for everyday living and a second palace at a seashore or hill resort. The fattest purse goes to the Nizam of Hyderabad, fabled richest man in the world, who gets 5,000,000 rupees a year. The leanest, 192 rupees, goes to the Talukdar of Kadodia, lord of a tiny village in the Kathiawar desert...
...India, however, rejoiced on Republic Day. In Calcutta, three people were killed when police fired on a Communist demonstration. In Bombay, scores were injured during a Red-provoked riot. In Hyderabad, the Nizam barely escaped injury when a hand grenade thrown at his car failed to explode. And in Madras, a government spokesman announced that the specter of famine "is already sitting on a million thresholds...
...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...
...Sorry." At the Hyderabad border we were greeted by Hindu peasants who were obviously all for the Indian "invaders." At Naldrug camp, where we breakfasted, soldiers were gathered around a radio listening to a rebroadcast of the Nizam's surrender speech. A soldier translated the gist to me: "He is sorry. He wants to be friends...
...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...