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100			_aNoorani, A G
245			_aThe Destruction of Hyderabad / _cA.G. Noorani
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260			_aNew Delhi _bTulika Books _c2021
300			_axxiii, 388 pages _c24 cm.
365			_bRs. 780.00
505			_aContents: List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1 A Tragedy in the Making; 2 The Founding of the State; 3 Confrontation on Berar; 4 To Federate or Not; 5 The Rot Within; 6 Jinnah Enters Hyderabad; 7 The Cripps Mission; 8 The Cabinet Mission and Walter Monckton; 9 The Mirza Ismail lnterlude; 10 Jinnah's Advice to the Nizam; 11 Negotiating a Standstill Agreement; 12 Hyderabad's Kashmir Connection; 13 Signing of a Non-Agreement; 14 The Endgame in 1948; 15 Hyderabad Invaded; 16 The Massacre of Muslims; 17 At the United Nations; 18 A Seaport and Men at Sea; 19 The Aftermath; Appendices; References; Index.
520			_aThe fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the ‘court historians’ of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army’s ‘police action’ against the armed forces and government of Hyderabad, ruled by the fabulously wealthy Nizam. His forensic scrutiny of the diplomatic exchanges between the Govt of India and the Govt of Hyderabad during the Raj and after Partition and Independence in 1947 has unearthed the Sunderlal Committee report on the massacre of the Muslim population of the State during and after the ‘police action’ (knowledge of which has since been suppressed by the Indian state) and a wealth of memoirs and first-hand accounts of the clandestine workings of territorial nationalism in its bleakest and most shameful hour. He brings to light the largely ignored and fateful intervention of M. A. Jinnah in the destruction of Hyderabad and also accounts for the communal leanings of Patel and K. M. Munshi in shaping its fate. The book is dedicated to the ‘other’ Hyderabad: a culturally syncretic state that was erased in the stampede to create a united India committed to secularism and development.
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