Thread by @ayush4bharat

15th Aug 1947 brought freedom to people of India but not to 1.76 crore people living in Nizam’s Hyderabad. Nizam claimed independent sovereignty a week later. #HydLiberationDay happened a year later

The Majlis which had celebrated Independence day on 27th July itself, started addressing the Nizam as ‘Your majesty’. Today's AIMIM headed by the Owaisi brothers is a continuation of that legacy. #HydLiberationDay

The Accession Satyagraha started in Hyd on 7th Aug '47. Over time 1000's of people carrying National Flag were arrested. On 15th August, the police lathi charged, fired upon and arrested processionals, while Razakars attacked them, tearing down National Flag. #HydLiberationDay

Even the National Flag atop Indian government offices was not spared. When villages revolted at this, with hundreds of village officers resigning, Razvi’s Razakars began raids on villages that had supported the satyagraha (Munshi). #HydLiberationDay

Under Razakars, ‘looting, arson, torture, murder, rape stalked the land’. It is estimated that in 1947-48, in Bidar district alone,176 villages were raided, property worth Rs. 36 million was looted,houses worth Rs. 6 million were burnt down #HydLiberationDay

Nizam’s Hyderabad was ruled mostly by Muslims Muslims accounted for more than 90% of the higher echelons of the bureaucracy. In admin as a whole, 75% of the jobs were held by Muslims while police and military services were 95% Muslim. #HydLiberationDay

although the Muslim population in the state was only 12%, they accounted for two thirds of the school students of Hyderabad in 1930. On the other hand, Hindus who were 86% of the population accounted for less than one third. #HydLiberationDay

Local languages and culture, Indian nationalism and Indian religions were suppressed. Private schools teaching in Marathi, Telugu and Kannada could be started only with the special permission of the government. #HydLiberationDay

Dhotis and Kurtas were banned in the Osmania University. So was the singing of Vandemataram. Thousands of students of the state, including hundreds from Osmania University were rusticated for violating this ban in 1938. #HydLiberationDay

They had to go to Nagpur (Jabalpur also) to pursue their studies. Among them was P.V. Narsimha Rao who later became the prime minister of India. #HydLiberationDay

Sikhs along with other Hindu denominations reqd special even to repair their temples and gurudwaras. They were even prevented from preaching their religion on grounds of ‘offending other faiths’. #HydLiberationDay

A professor presiding over Milad un Nabi could openly announce without censure: “I am pained to see the inertness among the Muslims, when there still exist 22 crores of gobar-parast (dung worshipers)”. These were so-called intellectuals !
#HydLiberationDay

Majlis ittehad-ul Musalmeen was started in 1928 to gather support for Nizam, with his blessings. It used to propagate that the Nizam was the shadow of god (Zil-e-allah ) #HydLiberationDay

Bahadur Yar Jung rewrote the Majlis constitution making the muslims of Hyderabad the true sovereigns of the state, its true rulers, while Nizam was reduced to their ‘emanation’ to be ‘maintained for ever’. #HydLiberationDay

Bahadur Yar Jung's successor Kasim Razvi, handpicked by Nizam, was an even greater demagogue . Aiming 2 recover control over circars, and even to capture Delhi, he started 52 military trg centres across state for Razakars, raising their strength to 2 over 1Lakh. #HydLiberationDay

In his infamous “Weapons Week” speech he declared:
“Hyderabad is an Islamic State … Remember that there are 4.5 crores of Muslims in the Dominion, looking to us to raise the banner of this Islamic State…. #HydLiberationDay

..Qoran is in one hand and the sword is in the other, let us march forward; cut our enemies to pieces; establish our Islamic supremacy ...Rizvi ;

On June 10th - Rizvi declared " We are the grandsons of Mahmood Ghaznavi and the sons of Babar. When determined, we shall fly the Asaf Jahi Flag on the Red Fort.” #HydLiberationDay

Razvi’s Razakar raids underlined the raw reality of islamic terror that the Nizam unleashed on the people of his state.
According to recorded figures, 1431 villages were raided across the state, property worth Rs. 103 million was looted, tens of thousands of dwellings destroyed

921 persons were murdered and 1150 women were dishonored by April 1948 (Dr. Palati). Unrecorded deaths & molestations may be many times these numbers. #HydLiberationDay . in an incident arnd Wadlakonda, 9 villages were reduced to ashes, 1000's of men killed & women molested,

Muslim government officials, police and army were all involved in Razakar drives, sometimes accompanied by ‘ittehad’ Hindus. In border districts, Razakars knew no control and “no non-Muslim woman could venture into the streets without being molested by them. #HydLiberationDay

Government servants were trained in arms use in Tiparti. Along with the police and military, they practiced their skills on unarmed villagers. This incident at Bhairavunipalli is glaring example arisebharat.com/2018/09/08/gen… #HydLiberationDay

Killing with guns was mercy killing. Sometimes more gory methods were employed. In one case near Kodakandala, five brahmins returning from a shraddha feast were hung from a tamarind tree and roasted alive on the suspicion of being ‘agents of Indian government’ #HydLiberationDay

Razakar rowdies brandishing arms would go around in lorries shouting slogans, proclaiming supremacy of Islam and muslim sovereignty. One of the ditties that they used to sing was: “Nizam ke kadmon pe Nehru ko jhuka denge; Patel Munshi ko kabron me gad denge. #HydLiberationDay

Salar Jung confided 2 K.M.Munshi:
“Our lives & properties are at mercy of Rizvi, If you want to solve the problem, do not remove the army 4m Secunderabad. I have served the State for years: I am the premier nobleman; but all the time I am afraid for my life.”#HydLiberationDay

Razvi’s reign of Islamic terror extended from prison to palace. Not even jails were safe. In Nizamabad jail, officials assisted by Muslim inmates and Razakars attacked Hindu prisoners resulting in 123 casualties #HydLiberationDay

. Even K.M. Munshi, the Agent General of the Government of India, himself was a marked man, carrying a reward of Rs. 5000/- put on his head by a mullah #HydLiberationDay

The Nizam had created a Frankenstein. Islamic terror that he had unleashed on the Hindus and dissenters of his state, finally turned Nizam himself into a prisoner in his own palace. #HydLiberationDay

Such were Nizamian times of terror, riven by rape and rapine,long decades of death & dis-honour, that were finally ended by Indian Army that marched into Hyderabad city on September 17, 1948.
This is why Sept 17 is celebrated as the Liberation Day of Hyderabad. #HydLiberationDay