Operation Polo
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Operation Polo: How the BJP shifted the narrative to ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’
Hyderabad: It is no secret that the right is always looking for reasons to flay minorities for political mileage. Hyderabad’s annexation to India in 1948 being brushed under the carpet throughout the state’s…
- Hyderabad
Operation Polo: Path towards reconciliation is to accept the violence of 1948
Hyderabad: Ejaz-Ul-Haq was just 10 years old when Operation Polo, or the annexation of Hyderabad took place. Remembered as the ‘Police Action’, it was done to merge or annexe the erstwhile Hyderabad…
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Operation Polo: Abdul Quddus Zaimi, the unsung hero of Hyderabad
Hyderabad: In the run up to the days leading to the annexation of Hyderabad to India, atrocities were perpetrated by the paramilitary group Razakars on Hindus, and post annexation (called ‘Operation Polo’),…
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Opinion: Was the last Nizam of Hyderabad’s independence bid a mistake?
Hyderabad: By September 16 in 1948 it was pretty much game over for the erstwhile Hyderabad state’s last Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, whose government was fighting a ‘war’ against the Indian…
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Operation Polo: How the annexation of Hyderabad unfolded on Sept 17, 1948
Hyderabad: War, merger, liberation, annexation, take over etc are a bunch of words that different people with differing views on the subject of Operation Polo or Police Action use. The term is…
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Nizam’s Hyderabad State was merged with India, neither liberated nor annexed
The discussion on the Police Action (Operation Polo) against the Hyderabad State of the erstwhile Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan has begun to pick up speed, thanks to the polarization policy of…
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September 13, 1948: Operation Polo and the politicisation of Hyderabad’s history
Hyderabad: For the longest time there was a silence maintained by the central and state governments when it came to events surrounding the annexation of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad to…
- Hyderabad
Operation Polo: Telangana Praja Palana Dinothsavam to be held in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Telangana chief secretary (CS) A Santhi Kumari on Thursday, September 12, reviewed the preparations for the ‘Telangana Praja Palana Dinothsavam’ to be conducted on Tuesday, September 17, which was previously observed…
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Documentary review: Police Action 1948 and the trauma of remembrance
Hyderabad: Fugitive traces of memory from the horrors of the 1948 annexation lurk in parts of Hyderabad, obscured by time and history. When Pomegranate Turns Grey, produced by Maktoob Originals and directed…
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Hyderabad Police Action: Owaisi slams Shah for ‘lying like Nehru’
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief on Monday slammed Home Minister Amit Shah and accused him of “lying like India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.” The remarks came shortly after Union home…
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Operation Polo 1948: How Hyderabad’s last Nizam agreed to give up his land for reform
By Pankaj Sethi Land ownership in British India had remained mired in its feudal past. The East India Company, and later the British Crown, took over from the conquered rulers the task…