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Hyderabad Liberation Day 2026

September 18 , 2026 13 hrs 0 min 5 0

A demand was made to include 17 September as Hyderabad Liberation Day in Telangana state textbooks.
It marks the integration of Hyderabad into the Indian Union in 1948 after Operation Polo.
Hyderabad was ruled by Mir Osman Ali Khan, the seventh Nizam, who did not initially accede to India after Independence.
India and Hyderabad signed a Standstill Agreement on 29 November 1947, but political tensions and violence increased later.
Operation Polo began on 13 September 1948, and Hyderabad State Forces surrendered on 17 September 1948.
After integration, Hyderabad State was reorganised in 1956, and Telangana became a separate State on 2 June 2014.