The only way for Hyderabad in the eyes of the British government is to join India, but the officials of Hyderabad and the Political Department of the Government of India, running at the behest of Conard Corfield, advised the Nawab not to heed the advice of the Viceroy. Mane. On 7 August 1947, the Co
Hyderabad was the second princely state not to be found in India till 15 August 1947. The princely state of Hyderabad was established in AD 1720 by the Mughal Subedar Chinkulij Khan. He assumed the title of Nizamulmulk. For this reason the ruler of Hyderabad was called Nizam. In AD 1798, the princel
The princely state of Junagadh, located in the Kathiawar region of Gujarat, was established in AD 1735 by a Mughal soldier named Sher Khan Babi. It had an area of 3,337 square miles and a population of 6,70,719. 80 to 90 percent of the population of the princely state was Hindu but the ruler was M
Bikaner State was an old princely state situated in the Tharparkar desert of India which came into existence around AD 1465. Its rulers came from the Rathor dynasty of Jodhpur state. Sadul Singh was the king of Bikaner at the time of Indias independence. From sending representatives to the Constitue
employee problem Due to the communal problem arising during the partition of the country, it was difficult for some employees of the Jodhpur Railway to leave Pakistan with their families. 600 such Hindu employees who were employed in Sindh province could not come to their work for some days due to
Problem of Hindu refugees from Pakistan in Jodhpur State There was an influx of refugees from both sides along the 325 km long border with Pakistan. On 28 August 1947 at Marwar Junction, S. Of. A refugee camp was opened under the chairmanship of Mookerjee, providing temporary accommodation, food,
Pistol on the forehead of the Secretary of the State Department When V.P. Menon went to the Viceroy with Maharaja Hanwant Singh on 9 August 1947 and Menon agreed to give special concessions to the Maharaja at the behest of the Viceroy, the Viceroy asked Menon to get the Maharaja to sign the entry
The Viceroy has accepted the facts sent by the Nawab of Bhopal as correct. Onkar Singh has believed on the basis of this description that Colonel Kesari Singh was not with the Maharaja at the time of the meeting of Jinnah and the Jodhpur king, otherwise the Nawab would have mentioned him. According
The 1941 census report in undivided India stated that 460 crore population depended on the Indus river water system. According to the report of the Radcliffe Commission, after the partition, 25 million of this population went to Pakistan and 21 million people remained in India. After this partition,
For almost a decade after Partition, it was easy to move between India and Pakistan. A large number of people used to move from here to there with the help of the rail-line built during the British period. E. In 1951, Pakistan prepared a new citizenship law for itself, after which in June 1952, the
Islam of Pakistani leaders in danger ! The leaders of Pakistan needed some provocative and sensational issue to keep the people of Pakistan united and under the control of the Muslim League, which could act as an additive material to the Muslims of Pakistan. That is why the Muslim League leaders o
Jinnah considered Pakistan as his creation and behaved like an autocratic ruler, so soon after the formation of Pakistan, Jinnahs companions started ignoring Jinnah. Pakistani journalist Jamar Niazi published his book Press in Chains It is written in- Jinnah was completely disillusioned with the Pak
In the meeting of the All India Muslim League held in Karachi in December 1947, it was decided to form two independent Muslim Leagues for India and Pakistan. From AD 1934, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the president of the All India Muslim League, but now Jinnah remains the president of the All Pakistan M
Hussain Haqqani, who was the Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States of America, wrote- Jinnah kept his promise of friendly relations between the two independent colonies that emerged from British-India till his death. He had no idea of the violence that took place during partition which was
After the creation of Pakistan, Jinnah became reclusive and irritable. He had kept in his hands the biggest and the smallest authority of the nation. His military-secretary Colonel Burney wrote in his diary- Jinnahs condition had become like a child who had found the moon by some miracle and now he
Pakistan was formed by sacrificing the lives of lakhs of people and pushing lakhs of people into hell while they lived, but the onward journey of Pakistan was not easy. Till now the Muslim people of undivided India were kept together by the leaders of the Muslim League for the creation of Pakistan i
A meeting was held between the officials of Bikaner and the Prime Minister of Bahawalpur State, Nawab Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani, in Bikaner under the chairmanship of Major Short, a military officer of the Government of India. On 7 November 1947, in the mediation of Major Short, the disputes related to r
Kashmir was the only state in the country whose king was a Hindu but the majority of the people of the state were Muslim. In the geographical division of India by Radcliffe, Kashmir had the facility to meet India or Pakistan in any country, or remain completely separate. After Indias independence, t
Dont get peace even after dying India was divided into three pieces, but even after dying, the statement of peace was fulfilled. Even after being separated, the dispute of Kashmir got stuck in the air like a camels tail. First in AD 1948, then in AD 1965, then in AD 1971 and then in AD 1993, Pakis
No place for Nobel laureates Since the creation of Pakistan till the time of writing this book i.e. from 1947 to 2019, only two Pakistani citizens have received Nobel Prize in Pakistan. The first is Dr. Abdus Salam, a physicist, and the second is Malala Yousafzai, a resident of Mingora city in the
Following the Imperial Japanese Navy attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor On December 7, 1941, another event occurred that spread panic throughout the American West Coast. On February 23, 1942 the submarine I-17 of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which had participated in the attack on Pearl H
Martin Luthers Movement The atrocities perpetrated on scientists in the conflict between science and religion and the persecutions of Christian monks through the Inquisition inspired many Catholic Christians to think differently. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, a great leader named Marti
It is unknown exactly when and where gunpowder was discovered. The prevailing view wants its discovery in China and its use in war. One of the first weapons, if not the first, to make use of gunpowder was the flaming spear. This weapon was nothing but a common spear near the tip of which was atta
We already talked in a previous post, animals used as bombs, the wild use of animals in battles, today we have another story of this type but with a look, at least, different. This is the story of Voytek , the bear that was enlisted in the 22nd Transport Company of the Polish Army during World War I