Word: razakars
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...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 as his leader Razvi might look if the fire were gone from his eyes. He was captured...
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...
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