Name: India After 75 Years of Independence
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 9 s
Description: After 75 years of independence, how well has India fared? Did it fulfil all the ideals set in the constitution? Let’s find out in the video.

Question

Who was given the responsibility of merging the princely states into the Indian union.

Accepted Answer

The responsibility of merging the princely states into the Indian union was given to the deputy Prime minister and Home Minister 'Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He successfully completed the task with the help of his assistant V.P. Menon. They both unified around $554$ states in number. An extremely difficult and complicated situation manifested itself when the viceroy announced on $3$ June $1947$ , that princely states would decide their own fate, either accession to one of the dominions or an independent existence. To tackle this problem of princely states Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and V.P. Menon prepared an elaborate plan. The $216$ states were merged into Indian provinces, $275$ big states formed separate category of states, $61$ states were converted into chief commissioners provinces. The Andaman and Nicobar were kept under separate category.

Who was given the responsibility of merging the princely states into the Indian union.

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