I was surfing to get to know more about Hyderabad (India). And it appears that Goans are not the only ones hurting or smarting over Nehru's military takeovers.
===================== http://www.talkaboutinvestments.com/group/sci.econ/messages/201532.html discusses about how the takeover of Hyderabad was "concocted": "False, except in the limited sense that "restoring law and order" was always used as an excuse by outsiders seeking to intervene; it omits who caused the disruption in the first place. It's the sort of excuse colonialists always used, e.g. in Andrew Jackson's takeover of the Floridas. This one was known as a police action for the same reason the Dutch called what they were doing in the East Indies a police action, using a loophole in the UN definitions of illegal war to avoid outside criticism. " ... "It is known that India routinely slipped infiltrators across the frontier of places like Hyderabad, Goa, Sikkim and so on - basically the sort of tactics Germany used in the Sudetenland and Austria. These infiltrators did NOT commit violence themselves, they merely took non-violent tactics to the point where ordinary government couldn't be maintained (this was what the Germans did too, to provoke frontier incidents "justifying" intervention). " An insteresting story by William Dalrymple can be found at http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/articles/art4print_832.html Under the Char Minar "The old man (Mir Moazam Hussain) settled himself back in his rocking chair and shook his head, half amused, half frustrated: "My grandchildren for instance. I can see the disbelief growing in their eyes as I talk. By the end - though of course they are much too polite to say so - I can see they are thinking that I must be either completely senile or completely mendacious. One of the two. For them the old world of Hyderabad is completely inconceivable: they can't imagine that such a world could exist." " ... "But I did believe Mir Moazam, for I had long heard equally fantastical stories about the State of Hyderabad. Years ago, Iris Portal, an old friend of my grandmother, had told me a story I had never forgotten: how one day in the late 1930's she had been taken to see some of the Nizam's treasure which was hidden in a secret vault in one of the palaces. This was at a time when Iris's husband ran the staff of the Nizam's younger son, and Iris had befriended his wife, Princess Niloufer. " ========== Cheers, Gabriel de Figueiredo. Melbourne - Australia. ____________________________________________________ On Yahoo!7 Messenger - Make free PC-to-PC calls to your friends overseas. http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
