How Sardar Patel tackled the 'Hyderabad Cancer'

Sardar Patel’s resolve to teach the Nizam of Hyderabad a lesson made him unleash a flurry of actions that culminated in the obstinate ruler’s surrender. KM Munshi, then India’s Agent-General in Hyderabad, provides a definitive account of the events in one of his books. The Hyderabad Nizam’s fate was sealed in December 1947 when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel asked his confidant and lawyer KM Munshi to assume charge as India’s Agent-General in Hyderabad.

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