Hyderabad to commemorate 75 years of liberation with year-long celebrations

Hyderabad will celebrate "Hyderabad Liberation Day" to commemorate 75 years of state independence in a year-long celebration. The celebrations will start on September 17, 2022, and end on September 17, 2023.

"The objective is to make the current generation, both from the region under consideration and the rest of India, aware of the story of resistance, valour, and sacrifice," the Centre said in a release.

At the time of partition in 1947, the princely states of India were under subsidiary alliances with the British. On July 18, 1947, the British passed the India Independence Act 1947, allowing states to opt