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‖ Razakar|ræzɑːˈkɑː(r)|
Also Razakhar.
[Urdu raẓākār.]
A Muslim who voluntarily pledges to fight in defence of his religion; hence, a member of a fanatical semi-military faction with this end. Also attrib.
1948Keesing's Contemp. Archives 31 July–7 Aug. 9421 Hyderabad's Moslems formed the Razakar (volunteer) movement which, in recent months, has in effect become the private army of the Moslem party in Hyderabad. 1957P. Griffiths Mod. India xii. 107 The Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen, with its semi-military organisation known as the Razakars, took a bitterly communal line. Each Razakar vowed to ‘fight to the last to maintain the supremacy of the Muslim power in the Deccan’. 1968H. Gray in M. Weiner State Politics in India viii. 402 Kasim Razvi organized a voluntary group of fighters named ‘Razakars’, who provided protection to landowners and the government administration during a Communist-led uprising. 1970R. Wingate Ismay viii. 180 Attlee replied in a long personal letter [c. Sept.–Oct. 1948] pointing out that in fact the Nizam had not been a free agent, but in the hands of the ‘Razakars’ (the extreme Muslim party). 1971Guardian 29 Oct. 13/1 They [sc. Pakistani army units] have left in the countryside a patchwork of police and Razakhar regimes. 1971Peace News 29 Oct. 5/1 The mukti fouj attacked a radio station occupied by the Pakistani army and their civilian hirelings, the razakars. 1972M. Shakir Muslims in Free India iv. 56 The emergence of the Razakars was a logical corollary of the Ittehad's political doctrine of collective Muslim sovereignty... It is the biggest exclusive Muslim Party in Hyderabad. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IX. 76/1 Immediately after Indian independence a fanatical Muslim faction, the Razākārs, fomented tensions in the state and the city [sc. Hyderabad]. |