Integration of Hyderabad

Date: September 13, 1948 • Location: Devarkonda, India

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1948.

Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.

Vallabhbhai Patel, commonly known as Sardar Patel, was a Indian independence activist, lawyer and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, who played a significant role in the Indian independence movement and India's political integration. In India and elsewhere, he was often called Sardar meaning "chief". He acted as the Home Minister during the political integration of India and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.