Integration of princely states into India
1947–1949 · Event
Sardar Patel and V. P. Menon bring more than 560 princely states into India, mostly by negotiated accession; Junagadh is taken over and Hyderabad annexed by military action in 1948.
On these timelines: Master, India, Partition of India
Around 1947
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)