Fun Fact: Independence Day BHOPAL

By : Soumya Jaiswal – Team Wassup Bhopal 

Imagine what if Bhopal was a different country? What if Bhopal was not a part of India? Weird, right? In today’s world where we call Bhopal as the heart of the nation, it is impossible to imagine our country without Bhopal. But this was the wish of the Nawab of Bhopal.  At the time of India’s independence in 1947, India had 565 quasi-independent monarchies. The rulers of many of these kingdoms wanted to run their own country independent of India and Bhopal was among them. The state was ruled by the most troublesome prick. Bhopal state was the second largest Muslim ruled princely state after Hyderabad. After the independence of India in 1947, the last Nawab of Bhopal wanted to retain Bhopal as a separate country independent of India. Fortunately, this did not take place as the agitations against the Nawab broke out in December 1948.  Many prominent leaders got arrested including Shankar Dayal Sharma. Later, the political detainees were released, and the Nawab signed the agreement for Bhopal’s merger with the Union of India on 30 April 1949. The Bhopal state was taken over by the union government of India on 1st June 1949.

Information source – Wikipedia