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Hyderabad 1948: Military Intervention or Police Action or a Polo Match?
When Dosabhoy Framji Karaka, the Bombay-based veteran war correspondent of British India, wrote about the finer military details of Operation Polo, not only was he implying that the brief war was named…
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Police action against Rahul Gandhi a cowardly act by Modi govt: Maha Cong chief
Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole has said the police action against party leader Rahul Gandhi was a “cowardly” act by the panic-stricken Narendra Modi government. He said the prime minister’s attempt…
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Hyderabadis talk about Police Action/Operation Polo 1948
Hyderabad: The Siasat Daily went around the city to talk to a few people about police action/operation polo that was the official annexation of Hyderabad state into union of India.
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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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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’:…