POLICE ACTION ON HYDERABAD:
The Indian army started police action on the state of Hyderabad, code named "Operation Polo".
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Under the command of Major
General “Jayanthnath Chaudhury”
on 13th September, 1948.
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The police action started simultaneously from six directions:
Ø Major General J.N. Chaudhury led the army which started from Sholapur.
Ø Similarly the Bombay army was led by D.S.
Brar,
Ø the Madras
regiment by A.V. Rudra,
Ø the Berar
military unit by Brigadier Sivadutt Singh.
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The Indian Airforce
assisted
the land army under Air Vice Marshall Mukherjee.
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The Southern
Commandant Lieutenant General Maharaja
Singh (GOC) supervised the operation.
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The Indian army which started from Sholapur
seized Naldurg town.
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From there the army marched forth and occupied Tamalvadi and Aljapur.
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Simultaneously additional
forces rushed to Osmanabad from Ahmi.
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On the same day the army under Major Rudra marched
through Munagala and occupied Bonakallu.
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Also on the same day the Indian subsidiary army units from Ahmad Nagar, Madhya Bharath and Mysore
crossed into Hyderabad borders.
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The towns Daulatabad and Jalna fell to the Indian army
on 14th September 1948.
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Manikhed and Connegaon in Parbhani district also fell.
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As
the Nizam's army stationed at Marudu heard the news of the onward march
of the Indian army,
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it
scattered for life towards Latur, Aurangabad and Sholapur,
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but
had to surrender to the Indian army on way.
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In
addition to this, the Nizam's army at Warangal and Khammam
also surrendered to the Indian army led by Major General Rudra.
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Zaheerabad, an important rail road junction also fell to the Indian army on 16th
September 1948.
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On the same day the Indian army reached Hingoli in Parbhani district.
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As soon as the Nizam's army ran away from there, the
people welcomed the Indian army.
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The Indian army took control of the Munirabad railway station near Koppal in Raichur district.
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The Nizam was alarmed as town after town fell to the Indian army and his military units were on the run for
life.
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Laiq Ali was the prime minister of the native state of Hyderabad when police action
was initiated against the state.
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He resigned to his post and got all the secret documents of the Nizam's
and prime minister's offices.
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He wired the Hyderabad agent in Pakistan Mushtaq Ahmed Khan to credit all the office
amount to his personal account.
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He also gave a similar telegram to the Hyderabad agent in London
General
Meer Nawab Jung to credit 5000
pounds to his personal account.
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Laiq Ali wanted the amount in both the accounts to be credited to his (Laiq Ali) personal account.
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Large
amounts of money deposited in the State
Bank of Latur was moved to a safe place.
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Meanwhile
on 17th September the Razakar leader Qasim Razvi asked the muslims
during Friday prayers to slaughter the Hindus.
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But
the Director General of Police of
Hyderabad Nawab Deenyar Jung
strongly advised Qasim Razvi again such
a move, fearing serious reprisal by the Indian
army.
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Laiq Ali's cabinet resigned on 17th September, 1948 and handed over the administration to the Nizam.
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The
Nizam's military commander Major
General “Ahmed L. Adrus” HALF MAST the Asafjahi flag as a sign of surrender.
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The Nizam declared the surrender
of the native state of Hyderabad through Radio
Deccan at 7pm on 17th September 1948.
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The Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan's
declaration ran as follows:
ü My
dear people, I am glad to release this declaration on behalf of his excellency Rajagopala chary, the Governor General of India.
ü My
Government has resigned. I am sad as
I have not taken this decision earlier. It is too late and I am not able to do
anything.
ü I do hereby inform the Governor General of India that I have ordered my army for ceasefire permanently.
ü Not only this, I do hereby allow the Indian troops to rest at the army
quarters in Bollaram and Secunderabad.
ü 
I
have created an advisory committee to assist me
in day to day administration till I
appoint a new prime minister and cabinet.
The members of the
committee are:
1.
His highness Prince Azanja Brar (Prince and Commander-in-chief
of the army)
2.
Major General Sayyad Ahmed L.
Adrus (Commander)
3.
Nawab Deenyar Jung (Commissioner of Police)
4.
J. Ramachary (Vakeel)
5.
Abdul Hasan Sayyad Ali (former president of ithehadul muslimeen)
6.
Pannalal Pitti, Sir Mirza Ismail,
Nawab Zain Yar jung, Diwan Bahadur Aravamudam Ayyangar.
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Meanwhile,
Swami Ramananda Tirtha, president of
the Hyderabad
State Congress was released from prison.
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The
Nizam also consulted the Agent General of India K.M.Munshi about the future of the
state.
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The
Nizam government withdrew its application in the security council of the UNO.
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Meanwhile
the Union Home Minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel rejected the Nizam's advisory committee.
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Major General Chaudhury reached Hyderabad
and took over the reigns of Administration.
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On 18th September, 1948 the Nizam's army commander General Adrus surrendered before General
Chaudhury.
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As
soon as General Chaudhury entered the Bollaram
residency,
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The
Nizam's representatives Julkadar Jung, Abdul Hasan Sayyad Ali and Ali
yawar Jung met him and
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presented
him the list of the members of the advisory
committee of the Nizam.
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But
General Chaudhury did not
approve of the list.
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General Chaudhury, after assuming charge as military ruler ordered the house
arrest of the former prime minister
of Hyderabad Laiq Ali.
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Qasim Razvi was also arrested.
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But
Laiq Ali escaped to Pakistan in March 1950.
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He died in 1971 and was buried in Madina.
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Though
General Chaudhury was appointed as military
governor,
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the
Nizam functioned as the constitutional head according to law and the natural principles of justice,
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as
the latter had to put the official seal
on the decisions taken by the former.
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General Chaudhury's military rule came to an end on the 1st of December, 1949.
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