History
Hyderabad royality:
Nizam-VII, the richest man in the world(1940) with the fortune of $2 billion which is double the annual revenue of Indian Government (1950). Contributed to the world war-I to the British and Osmania general hospital, high-court, central library, assembly hall, Arts college, irrigation projects in around Hyderabad, Hyderabad state bank, Singareni mines, Government printing press, iron factory, VST, Nizam Sugar Factory, glass factory, nizam college, medical college, azam jahi mills, RTC, sirpur paper mills, allwyn metals and many other great monumental infrastructure were developed with good cement roads & under ground drainage system in Hyderabad before independence.
Now the turn of "Seemaandhra" on the prosperity of the glorious Telangana…
| ANDHRA | HYDERABAD STATE |
| *1953-55 Sayyid Fazal Ali States reorganization committee *Nizam state . *Nizam rule, traditional, not exposed to modern developments. * Poor education, Urdu dominant, restricted to traditional occupations. *Till 1948 under the suppression of Nizam private army..Razakars led to Telangana peasant armed struggle to drive away zamindars, doras, & deshmukhs. *1948-56 as separate state in India |
—Read:- SRC report Para 386 and 388 which recommends separate statehood for 8 telugu speaking districts of Telangana and comments of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at Nizamabad on 5.3.1956
— On 1.Nov.1956 United state Andhra Pradesh was formed against the wishes of Telangana.
History and statistics of Telangana and Andhra regions:
· Hyderabad state had total 16 districts: 8 Telangana + 5 Marat Wada + 3 Kannada speaking districts.
· Nizam dynasty ruled it from 1724 to 1948.
· Struggle against the king started somewhere in 1943 and it reached new heights after 17th August 1947 as king refused to join the Indian union as he had an idea of making it a part of Pakistan.
· Police action started on September 13th and on September 17th of 1948 Hyderabad state became a part of Indian Union.
· Telangana saw its 1st elected government of Boorgula Ramakrishna Rao in 1952, the 4 years vacuum in government sector was filled by people of Andhra region.
· Then started the MULKI struggle (mulk stands for state in Urdu), GAIR MULKI GO BACK was the slogan at that time. It was a very simple but effective tactic by the Govt of India to control the people, officers from Andhra region were placed to monitor the activities in Telangana, for example police of Telangana state was formed by constables from Telangana region and officers from Andhra region.
Andhra Rastra creation and role of Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Garu:
On 19th of October 1952 Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Garu started indefinite hunger strike for separation of Telugu speaking people from Madras presidency, with Madras as its capital. He died on 15th December 1952 the 63rd day of fasting and Delhi cleared the way for Andhra Rastra, and on 1st October 1953 Andhra Rastra was created with Kurnool as capital. But our great leaders and stupid students of Andhra Pradesh will praise him as the father of AP on every November 1st.
STATE REORGANISATION COMMISSION (SRC) 1953:
There was a demand for language based state in several parts of the country and so among few Telugu speaking people of south India. SRC was commissioned by Delhi and was headed by Supreme Court judge Fazal Ali. He clearly mentioned that 8 Telugu speaking districts of Hyderabad state should be clubbed into a state called Telangana and if interested in future its assembly must vote with 2/3rd majority so that Telangana can be a part of a United Telugu state.
He made points both for and against the unification:
AGAINST unification:
1. It is not good to merge two regions which are unequal in development
2. Andhra is in deficit budget and Telangana is in surplus and there is every danger of the surplus being used by deficit region
3. People of Andhra are well versed with English and telugu education if a state is unified under telugu banner then Telangana people will be the losers because for generations telugu was not administrative language (Urdu was the administrative language here)
4. Telangana is a plateau region where as the Andhra is plain and fertile utilization of water resources will be unequal under a unified state.
FOR unification:
1. Andhra region will benefit from the infrastructure of Hyderabad and hence the problem of their capital (read it as capital in tents) will be solved.
2. Both regions can exchange food and mineral resources so that there can be an all around development. (now anyone can easily verify what amount of minerals Telangana lost to this unified state but what amount of food it got in return)
FORMATION OF ANDHRA PRADESH:
In 1956 C.M’s (chief ministers) of Hyderabad and Andhra Rastra met in Hyderabad, and leaders from both regions participated in it. ANDHRA leaders: Bejawada Gopal Reddy, Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, Alluri Satyanarayana Raju, Gautu Lacchnna TELANGANA leaders: Boorgula Ramakirshna Rao, konda Venkata Reddy, Marri Chenna Reddy, J.V. Narsimhlu
Both the groups came to an agreement on the formation of state and on 1st November 1956. Thus Andhra Pradesh became 1st state which formed on basis of language. (Leaders made a mockery of democracy don’t they know how things are run in a democracy? Did they seek permission of people from both the regions for the unification? The attitude was similar to Scottish noble men, in English we call it Horse trading.
· The then P.M Jawaharlal Nehru on 5th march 1955 while he was in tour of Nizamabad district of Telangana state was asked to comment on Andhra Pradesh state, in reply he made a statement “EK MASOOM BHOLI BHALI LADKI KO EK NATKAT LADKE KE SAAT SHAADI KIYA JAA RAHA HAI, CHAHE TOH WOH MILKE REH SAKTE HAI YA BICHAD SAKTE HAI”. We need to know a bit poetry and politics to understand this, he said an innocent girl(Telangana) is being wed to a clever boy (Andhra Rasthram) it is of their choice to continue or to get separated. Here he speaks about a plebiscite ie., a referendum (people can vote yes or no in it). When will government seek the decision by direct vote?
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