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The Razakars were Muslim separatists who advocated the continuation of Nizam's rule and tried to convince the Nizam to accede to Pakistan . After accession to Pakistan proved impossible owing to the distance of Hyderabad from Pakistan, Razvi encouraged the Nizam to take a hardline stance and ordered the Razakars to resist the accession of Hyderabad to the newly formed Government of India. Razvi even traveled to [[Delhi]] and had a stormy meeting with Indian leader [[Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel]]. | The Razakars were Muslim separatists who advocated the continuation of Nizam's rule and tried to convince the Nizam to accede to Pakistan . After accession to Pakistan proved impossible owing to the distance of Hyderabad from Pakistan, Razvi encouraged the Nizam to take a hardline stance and ordered the Razakars to resist the accession of Hyderabad to the newly formed Government of India. Razvi even traveled to [[Delhi]] and had a stormy meeting with Indian leader [[Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel]]. He is quoted to have said "Death with the sword in hand, is always preferable to extinction by a mere stroke of the pen", prompting the Indian government to call him "the Nizam's [[Frankenstein monster]]".<ref name="lubar">{{cite magazine |last=Lubar |first=Robert |date=30 August 1948 |title=Hyderabad: The Holdout |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,799076,00.html |magazine=Time |page=26}}</ref> P. V. Kate characterizes him as a religious Muslim fanatic who "insisted on the right of Muslims to enslave the Hindu".<ref name="Kate, P. V. 1948, p. 75">Kate, P. V., Marathwada Under the Nizams, 1724-1948, Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1987, p. 75.</ref> He was also implicated in the murder of patriotic progressive Muslims such as Shoebullah Khan who condemned Razvi's Razakars and advocated merger with India.<ref>Rao, P.R., History and Culture of Andhra Pradesh: From the Earliest Times to 1991, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 2012. p. 284</ref> Razvi launched criminal attacks on the Hindu population, leading to military action by India.<ref name="Kate, P. V. 1948, p. 75"/> | ||
After [[Operation Polo]], in which the [[Indian Army]] defeated the Razakars and annexed Hyderabad, merging it with India, Razvi was placed under house arrest and tried under Indian laws on seditious activities and inciting communal violence. He was jailed from 1948 to 1957. He was released from prison only on an undertaking that he would migrate to Pakistan within forty-eight hours of his release.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Hate-speech-not-new-for-Owaisi-clan/articleshow/17963124.cms|title=Hate speech not new for Owaisi clan|website=The Times of India}}</ref> He agreed to migrate to [[Pakistan]] as a condition of his release from prison, where he died in obscurity in 1970. His family had been residing there since 1949. {{citation needed|date=July 2010}}<!-- {Interview of Tayaba Razvi, 21 March 2005 by Jerome Whitney BSc, MSc, MA) --> | After [[Operation Polo]], in which the [[Indian Army]] defeated the Razakars and annexed Hyderabad, merging it with India, Razvi was placed under house arrest and tried under Indian laws on seditious activities and inciting communal violence. He was jailed from 1948 to 1957. He was released from prison only on an undertaking that he would migrate to Pakistan within forty-eight hours of his release.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Hate-speech-not-new-for-Owaisi-clan/articleshow/17963124.cms|title=Hate speech not new for Owaisi clan|website=The Times of India}}</ref> He agreed to migrate to [[Pakistan]] as a condition of his release from prison, where he died in obscurity in 1970. His family had been residing there since 1949. {{citation needed|date=July 2010}}<!-- {Interview of Tayaba Razvi, 21 March 2005 by Jerome Whitney BSc, MSc, MA) --> | ||
Kasim Rizvi was not in favor of cross border conflict and maintained that his goal was self-defense & the preservation of the Hyderabad State:<blockquote>"[I]f the Razakars attack the Indian territories they will not help the cause of the Hyderabad State nor its Muslims. Why should the Muslims of Hyderabad unnecessarily want to destroy themselves and others? For what purpose will Hyderabad indulge in such useless actions? It is the Indian Union, in contrast, which has every reason to attack Hyderabad."<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|first=|title=Rethinking Majlis’ politics: Pre-1948 Muslim concerns in Hyderabad State|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019464617745929|journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review|volume=55|pages=Page 48}}</ref></blockquote>According to the Former Prime Minister [[Mir Laiq Ali|Mir Laikq Ali]] many ‘anti-social elements’ joined the Razakars & regretfully stated that with the expansion of the movement; Kasim Rizvi was no longer able to control the Razakars.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|first=|title=Rethinking Majlis’ politics: Pre-1948 Muslim concerns in Hyderabad State|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019464617745929|journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review|volume=55|pages=Page 48}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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*{{citation|last=Gandhi|first=Rajmohan|title=Patel, A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayZuAAAAMAAJ|year=1990 |publisher=Navajivan Pub. House|ref={{sfnref|Rajmohan Gandhi, Patel: A Life|1990}}}} | *{{citation|last=Gandhi|first=Rajmohan|title=Patel, A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayZuAAAAMAAJ|year=1990 |publisher=Navajivan Pub. House|ref={{sfnref|Rajmohan Gandhi, Patel: A Life|1990}}}} | ||
*{{webarchive|url=//web.archive.org/web/20030729181146/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2003/04/27/stories/2003042700081500.htm|date=29 July 2003|title="Holding them captive?"}} opinion in ''The Hindu'' 27 April 2003 | *{{webarchive|url=//web.archive.org/web/20030729181146/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2003/04/27/stories/2003042700081500.htm|date=29 July 2003|title="Holding them captive?"}} opinion in ''The Hindu'' 27 April 2003 | ||
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