 The Government of India annexed Hyderabad State on 17 September 1948 after a military operation called Operation Polo.It appointed a civil servant, M. K. Vellodi, as first chief minister of Hyderabad State on 26 January 1950.He administered the state with the help of English-educated bureaucrats from the Madras and Bombay states, who were familiar with British systems of administration unlike the bureaucrats of Hyderabad State who used a completely different administrative system.