This book tells of the events which led, in September 1948, to the integration of the princely state of Hyderabad--the largest and the richest of the princely states-into the Indian Union. Over the centuries the area of Hyderabad State which covered most of the central part of the Deccan Plateau, remained isolated from the rest of the country and developed a culture distinct from others in the subcontinent. Until the 1930s, the court intrigues on the one hand, ...
