When India was
partitioned in 1947, about 500,000 people died in communal rioting, mainly
along the borders with Pakistan. But a year later another massacre occurred in
central India, which until now has remained clouded in secrecy.
In September and
October 1948, soon after independence from the British Empire, tens of
thousands of people were brutally slaughtered in central India.
Some were lined
up and shot by Indian Army soldiers. Yet a government-commissioned report into
what happened was never published and few in India know about the massacre.
Critics have accused successive Indian governments of continuing a cover-up.
The massacres
took place a year after the violence of partition in what was then Hyderabad
state, in the heart of India. It was one of 500 princely states that had
enjoyed autonomy under British colonial rule.
When independence
came in 1947 nearly all of these states agreed to become part of India…..To Read More….
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