Bomb Blasts In India - 1

[Hauma Hamiddha]

-I lived briefly as an intern during my BS in Hyd in the first half of 1990s and remember that there was always some tension and fear of riots. But in my conservations I was informed that there would be clear Hindu retaliation. Riots are typically initiated by Moslems (as GS has demonstrated) but perhaps having learned the possibility of huge Hindu retaliation they Moslems are thinking of alternatives -- one of which may be this style of bombing.

-The ancestors of the Nizam were of the Turco-Mongol nobility originally from Uzbekistan. The Qutbshahis who ruled before Awrangzeb's conquest of the land were actually far more tolerant in their last years. Though they too employed many from the Moslem world outside India, they did employed many Hindus in their administration. They were allies of Shivaji and Brahmana ministers conducted most day to day administration in during the reign of the last two Shahs and were also prime ministers of the last Shah. The Qutb Shah was a Shia belonging to the family of Qara Qoyunulu Turks and not strongly aligned to the other Sunni potentates occupying Hindustan. They had enmity with the Timurids right from Central Asia as Timur had smashed them in the campaign of 1400. The Qutbs also allowed the use of Telugu rather than forcing Urdu on the population. After the fall of the Qutb Shahs to the Mogols a more virulent breed of Sunnis were brought it to shore up the Nizam's rule, including many from Iraq, Samarqand and the like. The Nizam always had his elite force of foreign Moslems and thought little of the Deccanis. The virulence of the Moslems might have actually increased during the reign of the Nizams with many of the elite having little to do with the Telugu population.