There is no denying the fact that he was an efficient administrator and principled personality. To say merely on the strength of accession of 562 the then (1947-)existing Indian Princely states by him is false and without historicity. Modi and many others were again wrong when they stated that it was Patel who unified those states. He was neither defense Minister nor chief of the army that he ordered invasion of those states. Invasion was neither needed nor called for. Before the partition of India in 1947,562 princely states existed in India which were not part of British India. These were the parts of the Indian subcontinent which had not been conquered and annexed by British but were subject to subsidiary alliances. Things moved quickly after the partition of British India in 1947.By the end of 1949 all of the states except Sikkim had chosen to accede to one of the states of India or Pakistan or else had been conquered and annexed. For a short time some of the rulers explored the possibility of a federation of these state separate from either but this came to nothing. Most of the states then decided to accede to India or to Pakistan while others which held out for maintaining independent were later invaded by India such as Junagarh(1947-19480),Hyderabad on 18th September1948,Bilaspur on 12 October 1948,and Bhopal on 1st May 1949.Travancore also chose to remain Independent. In Jammu and Kashmir, a state with Muslim Majority but Hindu Ruler ,the Maharaja hoped to remain independent but acceded to India on 27 October 1947.The last remaining independent state Sikkim was incorporated in India on 16th May 1975.The figure oft quoted by Modi and his company is 562.This number includes princely states acceded in to Pakistan also. Exact figure shall be given soon.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:51:18 +0000
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