单词 | razakar |
释义 | Razakarn. Now historical. 1. A member of a volunteer Islamic militia group organized in 1947 to resist the integration of the state of Hyderabad into India and support the hereditary rule of the Nizam and disbanded in 1948 after defeat by the Indian army and the annexation of Hyderabad by India. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > person > fanatical assassin1340 ghazi1753 mad mullah1838 Razakar1948 1948 Keesing's Contemp. Arch. 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. 1957 P. 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’. 1968 H. 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. 1992 Canad. Woman Stud. Fall 103/3 In the evening again Razakars (fundamentalist para-military forces in the Nizam's time) came. 2. A member of a Pakistani Islamic militia which opposed the pro-Bangladesh forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > member of specific paramilitary group > [noun] Sanfedist1842 squadrist1938 Sternist1944 werewolf1945 provisional1970 Provo1971 Razakar1971 Schutzbündler1974 paramilitary1975 Koevoet1983 1971 Times 10 July 4/6 An attempt is being made to establish a locally based militia of Razakars, or volunteers. 1971 Peace News 29 Oct. 5/1 The mukti fouj attacked a radio station occupied by the Pakistani army and their civilian hirelings, the razakars. 1994 Asian Surv. 34 978 Paramilitary groups such as the Al-Badars, or Razakars, who allegedly helped the Pakistan military in its assault on the mukti bahinis (freedom fighters). 2006 United News Bangladesh (Nexis) 24 Mar. Only days before the Victory Day, he was blind-folded and taken away from the office at gunpoint by the Razakars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1948 |
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