Hyderabad State Liberation Day

Why in the News?

Recently, the Union government approved the year-long commemoration (starting September 17, 2022) of Hyderabad Liberation Day. 

Key Points:

Integration of Hyderbad:

• After India gained independence, the princely state of Hyderabad refused to join the Indian union.
• Its Nizam used a paramilitary force called the Razakars to terrorise and suppress the peasantry.
• 1948: 

• • Operation Polo was launched by the Government of India, Under which the Indian Army was sent on September 17, 1948, to the princely state, which consisted of modern-day Telangana and some areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
  • It led to the surrender of the Nizam and the Razakar.
• 2022: 17th Sept is going to be celebrated as ‘Hyderabad State Liberation Day’.