Operation Polo: The battle that changed the fate of the Nizam and Hyderabad

On the relatively breezy afternoon of September 12, 1948, at 1345 hrs the Indian Army HQ in Delhi sent a coded message to the Southern Command HQ in Pune. The message, a fateful “go ahead”, was about to change India’s history and geography forever. Within the next 16 hours, the Indian army had crossed into the state of Hyderabad.
After a five-day battle, the Indian tricolour was fluttering over the
erstwhile city of Nizams as Maj Gen El Edroos surrendered his
Hyderabad State Forces on September 18, eight kilometres
outside Hyderabad.
But how did His Exalted Highness the Nizam, once reputed to
be the richest man on earth, lose his 2-lakh square kilometre
kingdom nearly 15 months after he declared Hyderabad an
independent sovereign state? This is the story of Operation Polo.
Presentation and production: Aniket Singh Chauhan
Video: Zeeshan Akhtar
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I appreciate your presentation on Operation Polo, but I would like to bring it to your attention that ‘key aspects’ have been missed, from the Mountbatten plan to Hyderabad declaring its independence on 13 August, 1947; which was followed by the Standstill agreement and its violations, which resulted in Operation Polo; reason for being named Police action instead of Military action. Not to point out it was the Deccan Radio and The AIR.

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