Operation Polo
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What was Hyderabad police action/operation polo 1948 ft. Mir Ayoob Ali Khan
Hyderabad :The Team of The Siasat Daily spoke to renowned journalist from the city, Mir Ayoob Ali Khan to understand what really happened in the police action 1948.
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‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’: The significance of Operation Polo for India
By Pankaj Sethi Hyderabad: V P Menon, Secretary in the Ministry of States, was the man tasked by then Union Home Minister Sardar Patel (in 1947) to ensure that the Princely States…
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‘Hyderabad Liberation’: Was there a Communist- Razakar alliance in Telangana?
By Vijay Burgula Hyderabad: In the last decade or so, especially since the new movement for a separate Telangana began in 2009, and culminated in the formation of our state, debates and…
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Sept 17 1948: Operation Polo; the violent history of Hyderabad’s annexation
Mimansa Sharma Hyderabad: Stories of independent India follow the narrative of partition, loss, plunder and integration of the princely states into the country. A process which was bloody and ruthless. The erstwhile…
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Why is BJP mum on Junagadh’s annexation to India, asks TRS
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) social media convenor on Friday shared an article on Twitter about the integration of Gujarat’s Junagadh town into India, and demanded to know why the BJP was…
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Suppression of local languages by Nizams led to Hyderabad’s annexation: freedom fighter
Aurangabad: Imposition of Urdu as a medium of instruction in schools and suppression of local languages like Telugu, Marathi and Kannada by the Nizam rulers of Hyderabad triggered a movement that culminated into…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Tehreek Muslim Shabban-JAC to pay homage to 7th Nizam
Hyderabad: The Tehreek Muslim Shabban & Joint Action Committee of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will be paying homage to the seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, on Saturday on the occasion of…
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Hyderabad: Lamakaan to hold events to commemorate Operation Polo
Hyderabad: Cultural space Lamakaan is hosting a few events to mark the anniversary of Operation Polo, the military offensive against the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad, with which it was annexed to…
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Sept 13 1948, Operation Polo: When the Army marched into Hyderabad
Hyderabad: As the British formally partitioned India and left on August 15, 1947, the whole country rejoiced. However, princely states that functioned semi-independently under the British crown, had not been fully integrated.…
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Operation Polo: Remembering it would open old wounds
Hyderabad: Come September and the political temperature rises in Hyderabad. What generates heat is the million dollar question: was Hyderabad liberated or merged? Like the who came first, chicken- or egg-conundrum the…
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Operation Polo: Integration of Hyderabad into Indian Union
In 1947, when the British left and India became Independent, the princely states had the choice/option to either join India or Pakistan or remain independent. Being one state not under the British…
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Remembering Telangana’s Ravi Narayan Reddy, the 1st to enter India’s Parliament
By Vijay Burgula Hyderabad: The first Lok Sabha was constituted on the April 17, 1952 ,after India’s first General Election and as historian Ramachandra Guha notes in his book ‘India After Gandhi’:…
