Rajnikant Puranik - How was India’s Area Increased by 40% ?: Integration of the Indian Princely States

How was Indias Area Increased by 40% ?

Integration of the Indian Princely States

with Interesting Details on the Integration of
Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir

by

Rajnikant Puranik

Categories: Non-fiction, History, Biography

First Edition, August 2018

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Preface

The problem of the [Princely] states is so difficult
that only you can solve it.

Gandhi to Sardar Patel . {RG/406}

Sir Stafford Cripps had estimated it would take India 10 to 15 years or more, to merge the States with India. It was a surprise to all, and a tribute to the Sardars abilities, that he took, not 10 to 15 years, but less than 10 to 15 months to merge all the 548 Princely States with India, extending Indias geographical area by a whopping 40%.

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This book comprehensively covers the Integration of the Indian Princely States into India.

India of today is what was British India after partition, plus additional 40% geographical area on account of the integration of 548 Princely States into it (out of 562, 14 went to Pakistan), which Britain had declared to be independent upon lapse of their paramountcy. The credit for expanding Indias area by a massive 40% goes to Sardar Patel. This book provides interesting details on that integration.

But for Sardar Patel Hyderabad would have been either another Pakistan or Kashmir. J&K would not have been a perennial problem as it has become, bleeding India profusely in terms of men, money and materials through the decades, and Kashmiri Pandits would not have seen the terrible days that they have, had Nehru allowed Sardar to handle J&K too, like he [Sardar] had successfully handled the integration of all the other Princely States. This book brings out all the critical details on both Hyderabad and Kashmir.

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