Was the last Nizam of Hyderabad's independence bid a mistake?

Was the last Nizam of Hyderabad's independence bid a mistake?

Hyderabad: By September 16 in 1948 it was pretty much game over for the erstwhile Hyderabad state’s last Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, whose government was fighting a ‘war’ against the Indian army to stay independent. Within hours on September 17, the Hyderabad State Army would officially surrender, ending his reign as the monarch of the one of India’s largest princely states. The India Army however also had a second and more important motive for be…