Paper I · 10 History of Telangana & the Statehood Movement · 10.5 Revolts, armed struggle and the end of Nizam rule (1940–1956)

10.5.4 Hyderabad State 1948–56: military and civil administration, the 1952 election and the Mulki agitation

After Operation Polo, Hyderabad State was run by a military governor (J.N. Chaudhuri, 1948–49), then a civil government under M.K. Vellodi with the Nizam as Rajpramukh (1950), then its first elected ministry under Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (March 1952); the arrival of non-local officials set off the 1952 Mulki agitation, and the state was split up on 1 November 1956.

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Key terms

  • Hyderabad State 1948–1956
  • military governor
  • J.N. Chaudhuri
  • D.S. Bakhle
  • Chief Civil Administrator
  • jagir abolition 1949
  • sarf-e-khas
  • Friday holiday
  • English as official language
  • M.K. Vellodi
  • civil government
  • Rajpramukh
  • 26 January 1950
  • Part B state
  • Hyderabad Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act 1950
  • 1952 general election
  • 175 seats
  • People's Democratic Front
  • Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
  • Shadnagar
  • 6 March 1952
  • King Koti
  • Kashinath Rao Vaidya
  • V.D. Deshpande
  • Mulki rules
  • Mulki agitation 1952
  • non-Mulki go back
  • idli-sambar go back
  • Warangal teachers
  • City College firing
  • 3 September 1952
  • Jagan Mohan Reddy inquiry
  • cabinet sub-committee
  • Hyderabad Hitarakshana Samithi
  • Khammam district 1953
  • 1 November 1956

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