There happens to be an exhaustive study about telegaana struggle and justification for such consideration from the authorship and research of sri MADHUSUDAN BANDI,from the pages of MAINSTREAM, VOL XLIX, NO 46, NOVEMBER 5, 2011 Realising Telangana State: Issues, Apprehensions : I append below the essence in parts. to day the first part.:1. Context The closer a government to its people, the better it works is how Stigler (1957) defined effective governance.. It is the geographical and population-size that makes Telangana an ideal administrative unit befitting to be a State that would rank somewhere in the middle in the cluster of the 28 other States of India.y It involves many an issues of governance interwoven with emotions, politics and vested interests of the powerful lobbies of allthree regions This paper tries to highlight the fears, real/imaginar . The field visits since 2004 and especially during and after Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) declared to fast unto death in 2009 paved way to bring about this paper.The respondents were politically aware about the developments in the State and represented sections cutting across religion, caste and economic status. The paper also reflects on the perceptions and opinions expressed by both the intellectuals and common public from all the three regions of AP as gleaned from the electronic and print media. Genesis of Discontent GOING back into history should help in solving the problems and not complicating them further. If the votaries of Telangana claim how the region is different from the remaining two since the period of Muslim rule, the scholars of the other regions give account of oneness between the Telugus prior to the Muslim invasion in the area. In fact, history supports the origin of the ‘Telugu’ word to Telangana as it is derived from ‘trilinga’ meaning three shiva lingas. These lingas are found on the mountains of Kaleswara (Karimnagar, Telangana), Srisaila (Kurnool, Rayalaseema) and Bhimeswara (East Godavari, Coastal Andhra) that mark the traditional boundary of the Telugu country forming more or less the present-day Telugu region (Andhra Pradesh) (Rao, 2004), thus justifying ‘Telugus’ as one ethnic group. But, in the present circumstances, this contention is limited to culture and history, simply because here the question is not about the ‘unity of Telugus’ but about control over the State’s resources. This was one of the issues1 behind the ‘Jai Andhra’ movement that took place for separation from Telangana in 1972. It was carried out by the people of the very region who are today against the Telangana agitation in the name of keeping all Telugus in one geographic unit of the Andhra Pradesh (AP) State for whatever reasons. The 1972 movement also claimed hundreds of innocent lives to scrap the ‘mulki2 rules’ that had given constitutional protection to Telangana. (Prasad, 2001) Until November 1, 1956 when AP was formed as the first linguistic State, the three regions of Telangana, Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra were not part of the AP State. The Hyderabad state with the present-day Telangana region in AP and some parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka were integrated from the Nizam into the Indian Union on September 18, 1948 through ‘police action’. Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema along with the present-day regions of Tamil Nadu were part of British occupation and continued to be administered as the Madras Presidency from Independence to October 1, 1953. Political activity in India during 1948 to 1956 for relaying of the boundaries for administrative units on different lines was in full swing. When Andhra’s popular leader, Potti Sri Ramulu, died in the fasting camp on December 15, 1952 demanding a separate Andhra region for the Telugu-speaking people in the Madras Presidency, violence erupted as a reaction in the Andhra region which forced Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to agree for the creation of the Andhra State. It was formed on October 1, 1953. I sincerely thank the author for his candid study and this is very timely now if one cares to know without bias and nelsons eye. your views are welcome over this write up which will be posted serially in the coming two days.
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