Row 1485

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**“The vultures have resigned, I don’t know what to do”**

**Sept 17, Hyderabad**– The bespectacled and unassuming lawyer received the invite for a meeting at 4PM, and he broke out in a wry smile. He could afford to do so, the man who had called him for the meeting, was no ordinary person. Time magazine in it’s February 1937 edition, had put him on the cover page and called him the world’s richest man, a man who used the 100 million $ worth Jacob’s Diamond as a paper weight, and whose personal fortune ran into billions.  Along with Baroda, Mysore, Gwalior, Jammu and Kashmir, he was one of those princely rulers, who had the privilege of receiving a 21 gun Salute. **His Exalted Highness Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan Siddiqi GSCI, GBE Asaf Jah VII** as he was officially called, presided over a kingdom  that  was around 215,339 sqkm in area, the largest of all the princely states in India. The State of Hyderabad stretched from Aurangabad in the North West to Mahbubnagar in the South East, from Adilabad in the North East to Raichur in the South West. It covered the present day Marathwada in Maharashtra,  Northern Karnataka, and the Telangana region.  It had a population of 16.34 million as per the 1941 census, the majority of whom were Hindu, around 85%, with Muslims making up 12% and the rest being Christians, Sikhs, Parsis. Though predominantly Telugu speaking around 48%, it had significant population of Marathi(26.4%), Kannada(12.3%)  and Urdu(10.3%)  speakers.

The  bespectacled, unassuming  lawyer on the other hand hailed from a relatively humble family, in Broach, Gujarat, and was educated in Baroda, known to be excellent at academics too.  **Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi**, aka **K.M.Munshi,** was a student of  Aurobindo Ghosh, at Baroda, later made a name for himself as a successful lawyer,  in Bombay, and was also a well known writer too.  Starting off as a revolutionary, he later took active part in the **Bardoli Satyagraha** along with Sardar Patel, and one of his more well known achievement was founding of the **Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan** in 1938.  A great admirer of  Sardar Patel,  after independence he was appointed as Agent General to Hyderabad State, to negotiate it’s accession to the Indian Union.  There was a good reason why Sardar had choosen Munshi for the responsibility, he had earlier been the Home Minister in Bombay from 1937-39, and handled the communally charged situation there well.  Munshi had been living in virtual house arrest, was treated with disdain and suspicion by the Nizam’s  Government and was living in some buildings that belonged to the Indian Army. It was a vindication of sorts, for Munshi, that the Nizam who till then had ignored him, was now seeking to have an audience with him. The day before, the Nizam had demanded the resignation of his Prime Minister, Laik Ali and his entire cabinet.  And when Munshi met him, the world’s richest and till then one of the most powerful men, declared with an air of resignation and helplessness-

>*“In November last \[1947\], a small group which had organized a quasi-military organization surrounded the homes of my Prime Minister, the Nawab of Chhatari, in whose wisdom I had complete confidence, and of Sir Walter Monkton, my constitutional Adviser, by duress compelled the Nawab and other trusted ministers to resign and forced the Laik Ali Ministry on me. This group headed by Kasim Razvi had no stake in the country or any record of service behind it. By methods reminiscent of Hitlerite Germany it took possession of the State, spread terror … and rendered me completely helpless.”–The Nizam in his radio speech, Sept 23,1948.*

To get a more detailed perspective on Operation Polo do check out my article here.

[https://historyunderyourfeet.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/operation-polo/](https://historyunderyourfeet.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/operation-polo/)

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