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The Status of Hyderabad During and after British Rule in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Taraknath Das
Taraknath Das*
Affiliation:
Public Affairs and Regional Studies, New York University; Columbia University
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The relationship between the Government of the Union of India and the Princely State of Hyderabad has attracted world-wide attention. Through what seems to be complete misunderstanding of the legal status of Hyderabad, the United Nations placed the case on the agenda of the Security Council. Although the Nizam of Hyderabad, after the successful conclusion of the Indian Army's punitive expedition into Hyderabad, has petitioned the United Nations to withdraw the case, the question still remains on the agenda.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 1949 , pp. 57 - 72
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1949

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8 “Liability to intervention in case of grave misrule is an incident common to all the States. There are also other occasions for interference which are likely to be taken whenever they occur.” Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. IV, p. 88.

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10 India Year Book, 1922, p. 115. Sir William Hunter, in his Indian Empire, describes the limitation of the right of Indian Princes in the following manner: “… The English Government has respected the possessions of Native Chiefs and more than one third of the country still remains in the hand of the hereditary Rulers… . The Government (British), as Suzerain in India, does not allow its feudatories to make war upon each other, or to have any relations with foreign States. It interferes when any Chief misgoverns his people: rebukes, and if needful removes the oppressor, protects the weak and firmly imposes peace upon all.” (Italics added.)

11 Collected Papers of John Westlake on Public International Law, pp. 217–218.

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31 For details see White Paper on Indian States (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1948).

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33 The very title “Nizam’’ means the superintendent of a territory under the Mogul Empire, and succession of a Nizam was invariably sanctioned by the Mogul Empire. After the suzerainty of the Mogul Empire passed into the hands of the East India Company, the succession of the Nizam had to be approved by the East India Company. No independent country has its rulers’ succession approved by another Power.