Integration of Junagadh

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Was an Indian military campaign to annex the princely state of Junagadh that had joined Pakistan despites being a region with a Hindu majority.

Chronology

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September 1947: The Nawab of Junagarh, Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III, a Muslim whose ancestors had ruled Junagarh and small principalities for some two hundred years, decided that Junagarh should become part of Pakistan, much to the displeasure of many of the people of the state, an overwhelming majority of whom were Hindus. The Nawab acceded to the Dominion of Pakistan on 15 September 1947. Pakistan accepted the Nawab's Instrument of Accession on 16 September.

November 1947: By 9 November 1947, the Indian Government assumed the administration of Junagarh using the "pretext" of re-establishing peace.