Significant1948

Annexation of Hyderabad

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Hyderabad State · India

Estimated casualties

30K – 200Kestimated dead

Sunderlal Committee: 30,000–40,000 dead; some observers estimated 200,000+, largely communal massacres.

SOURCEscholarly

India's September 1948 military operation (Operation Polo) that annexed the princely state of Hyderabad, ending its bid for independence. The brief campaign was followed by large-scale communal massacres, mostly of Muslims, with death estimates ranging from tens of thousands to over 200,000.

Belligerents2

India
Princely State of Hyderabad (Nizam/Razakars)

Sources

Wikipedia: Annexation of Hyderabad
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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