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Not many know that the free dom movement against the Brit ish rule was quite strong in the princely state of Hyderabad. The Nizam was a `faithful ally' of the British and always ensured that voices of dissent against the foreign rule was curbed with an iron hand.But braving the Nizam's wrath, hundreds joined the Indian National Congress and mounted an attack against the British. Even long before the Congress was formed in 1885, Hyderabad had its own freedom heroes in the form of Turrebaz Khan and Moulvi Alauddin, who led an armed fight against the British Residency .
According to historian and author Syed Naseer Ahmed, Hyderabadis stood by Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Moulana Azad and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. If one Hyderabadi (Abid Hasan Safrani) had coined the most patriotic slogan, Jai Hind, another (Shoebullah Khan) fell dead to the bullets of Razakars.Yet another (Mir Akbar Ali Khan) preferred to fight for the merger of Hyderabad with Indian Union to holding the coveted post of the prime minister. He turned down the offer of prime ministership.
Naseer Ahmed, author of The Immortals, a pictorial guide on Muslim freedom fighters, told TOI that “There were revolutionary poets and women fighters too in Hyderabad. The princely state had also sent one of the first freedom fighters (Moulvi Alauddin) to the notorious cellular jail in the Andaman,“ he adds. The fight against the British rule began in Hyderabad on July 17, 1857 and continued for 91 years till the merger of Hyderabad with Indian Union on September 17, 1948.
As Independent India turns 70, many Hyderabadi heroes, who changed the course of freedom movement in Hyderabad, continue to remain unsung.
According to historian and author Syed Naseer Ahmed, Hyderabadis stood by Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Moulana Azad and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. If one Hyderabadi (Abid Hasan Safrani) had coined the most patriotic slogan, Jai Hind, another (Shoebullah Khan) fell dead to the bullets of Razakars.Yet another (Mir Akbar Ali Khan) preferred to fight for the merger of Hyderabad with Indian Union to holding the coveted post of the prime minister. He turned down the offer of prime ministership.
Naseer Ahmed, author of The Immortals, a pictorial guide on Muslim freedom fighters, told TOI that “There were revolutionary poets and women fighters too in Hyderabad. The princely state had also sent one of the first freedom fighters (Moulvi Alauddin) to the notorious cellular jail in the Andaman,“ he adds. The fight against the British rule began in Hyderabad on July 17, 1857 and continued for 91 years till the merger of Hyderabad with Indian Union on September 17, 1948.
As Independent India turns 70, many Hyderabadi heroes, who changed the course of freedom movement in Hyderabad, continue to remain unsung.
