A year after India gained independence one would have expected remorse to have set in among the Congress leadership. But, during and after ‘police action’ (in reality military action) in Hyderabad, a brazenly anti-Muslim attitude surfaced. The Nizam of Hyderabad had refused to surrender sovereignty to the new nation which outraged Congress leaders. These were the very same leaders who had talked of a secular state and were opposed to the two-nation theory. But in the immediate aftermath of Partition they were beginning to fear the idea of a ‘Muslim State’ of Hyderabad in ‘Hindu India’. Patel
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