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Rare Photos Of Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948

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Operation Polo code name for The Hyderabad Police Action was a military operation in September 1948 in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the State of Hyderabad and ended the rule of Nizam, annexing the state into the Indian Union.

The conflict began after Nizam Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII decided not to join the princely State of Hyderabad to either India or Pakistan after the partition of India. The Nizam's defiance was backed by Qasim Razvi's armed militias, known as Razakars and had the moral support of Pakistan. After a stalemate in negotiations between the Nizam and India, and wary of a hostile independent state in the centre of India, Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Patel decided to annex the state of Hyderabad. He sent the Indian Army and the Hyderabad State Forces were defeated within five days.


Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos (at right) offers his surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces to Major General (later General and Army Chief) Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri at Secunderabad (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)

The operation was called "Operation Polo" because at that time, Hyderabad state had some 17 polo grounds, the largest number in India.



Crowds Cheering Indian Army (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)

Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri talking with Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (Kulapati Dr. K. M. Munshi) - Agent-General of India in Hyderabad State (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)

 
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Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



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Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic



Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Last Prime Minister of Hyderabad State Mir Laik Ali (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Syed Kasim Razvi (Qasim Razvi)- Razakars chief of Hyderabad State, a local militia (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)
 
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Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic



Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic



Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (R) shaking hands with Lt. General Maharaj Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri talking with Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic
 
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Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan with First Indian Union Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri flank the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan after he signed the accession to India in September 1948 (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Mecca Masjid, September 1948 (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


 
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Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Crowds Cheering Indian Army (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Charminar Street (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Azam Jah (Prince of Berar) Eldest Son of Last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan Asif Jah VII (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic



Indian Army Vehicles (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)
 
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Indian Army Vehicles (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Hussain Sagar, Tank Bund Road (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (Kulapati Dr. K. M. Munshi) - Agent-General of India in Hyderabad State (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Hyderabad Town hall (Now The Andhra Pradesh State Assembly), September 1948 (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri talking with Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)
 
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Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Syed Kasim Razvi (Qasim Razvi)- Razakars chief of Hyderabad State, a local militia (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic



Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)



Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic



Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic
 
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Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Soldiers (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Nawab Deen Yar Jung Bahadur - Hyderabad Police Commissioner During Operation Polo


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (R) shaking hands with Lt. General Maharaj Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri talking with Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)
 
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Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Soliders (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)
 
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Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Vehicles (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Vehicles (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Hussain Sagar, Tank Bund Road (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic
 
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Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri talking with Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri and Last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan at the King Kothi Palace, Hyderabad (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan receiving first Indian Union Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, at the Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Charminar Street (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Last Prime Minister of Hyderabad State Mir Laik Ali
(Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)
 
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Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Azam Jah (Prince of Berar) Eldest Son of Last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan Asif Jah VII (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Last Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri talking with Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic
 
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Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Indian Army Soldier (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri talking with Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of the Hyderabad State Forces (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Azam Jah (Prince of Berar) Eldest Son of Last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan Asif Jah VII (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)
 
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Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Tanks (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic


Indian Army Vehicles (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos (at right) offers his surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces to Major General (later General and Army Chief) Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri at Secunderabad (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Vehicles (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Razakars, a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Indian Army Vehicles (Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic)


Operation Polo / Hyderabad Police Action 1948 Pic
 
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