Lie #2: There was communal harmony during Nizam’s rule which was disturbed after the formation of Andhra Pradesh state
Muslims dominated the state administration during Nizam rule. Of the 1.7 Crore people living in the Hyderabad state, roughly twenty lakhs, about 12% were Muslims. Despite their small numbers,
Muslims held 90% of the army and police jobs and occupied more than 80% of the government administrative jobs. The religious discrimination was so rampant that, in the railway stations of Hyderabad, there used to be two separate refreshment rooms labeled “Moslem Tea Room” and “Hindu Tea Room” according to a Time Magazine article that came out in August 1948 titled The Holdout.
Anjuman Thabli Gulislam, a religious organization supported by Nizam, actively converted poor and downtrodden Hindus to Islam. To counter these conversion activities, Arya Samaj formed an organization called Shuddhi Sabha. As a result, there was considerable hostility between these two religious groups. Muslims were the rulers. They dominated the administration, and the cultural and intellectual spheres. The majority of the subjects in the Hyderabad State had to bear the domination silently because of their powerlessness. Their meek and silent endurance of brutal dominance by despotic rulers cannot be described as communal harmony. Absence of violent protest by the Hindus against the muslim domination cannot be termed as communal peace.
