the Hyderabad question had started causing serious anxiety. On 31 March 1948, Kasim Razvi of Ittehad-ul-Muslemeen declared that Hyderabad was an Islamic state and the Razakars were fully armed to defend their freedom and fight the ‘Hindu Kafirs’. On 10 April, he said that ‘Hyderabad would recover the ceded districts and the day is not far off when the waves of the Bay of Bengal will be washing the feet of our sovereign.’
