had wished not to merge their respective states with the union of indiathe lightning speed with which the iron man of india brought together the states was a mission with ups and downs in no other nation or era has integration of such a vast population comprising such diverse people taken place within such a short span of timeby doing so patel stitched the princely states along with british indian territory and prevented the balkanization of indianeedless to say the path was characterized by steep challenges the process was encumbered by the onerous expectations of the princely states there were several difficulties plenty of surprises find out the twists and turns as the process of accession unfoldedhyderabaddespite persuasion from patel mir osman ali khan the seventh and final nizam of hyderabad did not want to cede hyderbad to the indian union the nizams ambitions if realized could have cut off north india from the south as hyderabad ran across the deccan plateau in the centre of the indian subcontinentnizam was a disaster to the hindu community he and his sidekick qasim razvi believed that since nizams have been ruling for 200 years hindus are captives and are only fit to be controlled by muslims thats why they unleashed a reign of horror and genocide to keep hindus under check in the nizam arearizvi organized mercenaries under the name razakar muslims were invited by nizam from all over india to change demographics abruptly millions of muslims who wanted to go to pakistan got associated with the razakar army hindus were terrorized to abandon their farms and homes without guns hindus were no match for lakhs of razakar with armspatel invited razvi to work out on an achievable reasonable solution razvi was ruthless arrogant throughout his meeting with sardar he wanted nothing less than an independent nation for hyderabad in the first week of september 1948 patel called for a highlevel meeting with the indian army to explore ways to march troops into hyderabad and take control as a form of police action in the early hours of 13th september 1948 under the codename operation polo indian army under major general chaudhuri started marching into hyderabad it took less than four days for indian troops to take control of the princely state as a result nizam resigned and accepted the indian union razakars surrendered and nizams hyderabad became part of india and hindus were savedjunagadhin an unexpected twist the nawab of junagadh decided to accede to pakistan even as the people of the state remained staunchly opposed to it the nawab an eccentric of sorts who spent a fortune in the upkeep of his pet dogs finally escaped to pakistan along with his dogs while leaving behind in a hurry his child and wife despite this instrument of accession junagadh finally integrated into india with patels resolute efforts in february 1948 in a landmark plebiscite an overwhelming majority of people in junagadh cast their votes in favour of remaining in