Things to know about Telangana

Telangana

How many of you know that telangana was never ruled by britishers?,
It was being ruled by nizams when britishers are ruling rest or most of india,
how many of you know telangana didn’t get its freedom on august 15th 1947?.
When whole India Is celebrating independence on august 15th, millions of telanganites are still crying and craving for freedom from nizams.
Telangana got its freedom on sep 17th 1948 from nizams,when iron man of India Mr patel surrounded hyderabad fort to force king of nizam to surrender and merge it with India.
Telangana have seen several fighters during its freedom struggle,leaders like komuram bheem,raavi rarayana reddy,narayana powar,bheem reddy narshimha reddy dared nizams for their atrocities,brutalities and fought for the liberation of telangana.
Why did most of the sacrifices that were done by telangana fighters were faded away, why didn’t they get a place in history as Gandhi or Nehru or even like alluri or thanguturi?,whose mistake was it, history writers of Andhra Pradesh should be ashamed of this fact.
After telangana got its freedom on sep 17 1948,it was called as hyderabad state for about 8 years until 1956, during this period, based on linguistic nature Hyderabad state had to leave some of the districts to Karnataka and Maharastra.
B Ramakrishna rao was first chief minister of Telangana after the general elections in 1952,during that period in 1953 andhra state was formed from madras, potti sriramulu fought for separate Andhra state on the basis of self respect and self rule, eventually potti sriramulus name was written in history with golden letters for the sacrifice(his life) he did, which is totally understandable, some people treat him as god still which is logical and he deserves it,but there are thousands of telanganites who have sacrificed their lives for telangana they deserve the same respect as sriramulu if not more, but unfortunately most of the sacrifices were not listed anywhere in history,almost 5000 people died in telangana fighting with nizams.

Merging with Andhra

Andhra and telangana was merged in 1956, initially it was called Andhra-telangana and later it was changed to Andhra Pradesh. Many people questioned how come Andhra-telanagana name is changed to Andhra Pradesh, this is one of those questions which is highly debatable, if people say Andhra Pradesh is place where andhra’s live, telangana is “land of telugus”, both have the same meaning.
Since Andhra politicians had domination with a big number, power and money, they were able convince everybody else to change the name to Andhra Pradesh, this is one of the examples of andhra lobbying.
The following are the differences between Andhra and telangana regions then, during the merger which was done in 1956
The first important thing everybody should understand here
British ruled madras presidency(andhra state) was much developed than nizam ruled hyderabad(telangana),Andhra had good education, good wealth ,and good irrigation methods when compared to telangana, the literacy rate in Andhra was very high compared to telangana, Andhrites have a good command of telugu and English, very few telanganites knew telugu writing back then, primarily they were forced to learn urdu under nizam rule.Telanganites were living under nizam kingship or dictatorship(rachrikam),which is one of the most brutal government ever ruled Indian territories.
During the merger, andhrites development index(living standards) were more than 7 times that of telanganites, now after merging rich with poor, educated with not so educated, power with powerless people, obviously the rich, wealthy and powerful people would dominate the other people.
the idea of such merger is ethically wrong, even Nehru opposed to this idea, he quoted this merger as “this merger would be an act of imperial expansionism”.
Many intellectuals were worried if someone from other areas come and rule this area ,chances of exploitation would be more.
The whole idea of merging started since telangana had the best city(Hyderabad),I mean one of the best cities in india then, ambedkar even quoted Hyderabad can be made as second capital of India.
Hyderabad had a very good infrastructure, Assembly, High Court, 2 good airports, railways stations, great transportation, universities, good drainage systems, schools and hospitals, and many more historical wonders of nizam kingdom.
Great telangana engineer vishweshwarayya was the main architect of cities infrastructure.
Hyderabad king was Forbes richest man to ever walk on the earth then, Hyderabad had such wealth, most of it basically the tax of all telangana people.
Andhra and seema had some internal problems, sri bagh agreement is one of the things to assure development in seema region, this is one of the main reason why they had kurnool as its capital.
Kurnool after becoming capital was very difficult for all the politicians of seemandhra to conduct meetings or have an assembly, they had to put up artificial tents to conducts meeting, they even had a budget to prevent animals coming into meeting halls, the infrastructure was very pathetic, you can read this if you can find any old news papers dated 1955.

During the time when SRC was giving a report of linguistic states, when seemandhra politicians wanted telangana to merge with Andhra, they thought their capital city problem and andhraseema internal problems could be solved if this becomes a reality.

SRC reported that majority of seemandhra are in favour of merging, but the opinion of telanganites yet to crystallize, many intellectuals of telangana were opposing this merger, but telangana politicians have become puppets in front of lobbying by seemandhra leaders, since they had very good network with high command, they were able to convince telangana puppet leaders then.
Fazilali commission recommended to make telangana as a separate entity,it also said if at all merging happens, this should happen after 1961 telangana general body elections,only if 2/3 of telanganites wants to merge with seemadhra.

Seemandhra leaders were so intelligent then,they knew it might not happen in 1961,so they started lobbying heavily and made the bill to pass in assembly 1956 and got approval, and that’s how it was merged.
But it was merged with some rules, its like a contract with agreement, Nehru quoted after merger ,Telangana can divorce from Andhra or vice versea, if they dont like it.

That is called as “Gentlemen’s agreement”.

The following are some of the rules in Gentlemen’s agreement

1 If chief minister is from Andhra, deputy should be from telangana and vice versa.
2. 610 GO, local jobs should be given to localites, this would help to bring up telangana people standards.
3. Mulkhi rules, you have to stay at least 12 years to buy a land or to become localite,this would help to avoid land grabbers from innocent farmers or people.
They were some other rules to safeguard telangana development.

After Merging(Andhra Pradesh)

Since the merger,in telangana there were not many educated people or wealthy people or at least as wealthy as andhrites, telangana was completely dominated by andhrites as everybody expected.
All the safeguards to protect telanganites in the form of agreement that was signed during the merger was broken.

Even SRC(fazil ali comm) reported that "telanganites mostly feared of enterprising nature of andhrites will make them use resources of telangana like coal,water, limestone and bauxite etc.. mostly in andhra rather then developing telangana region with these resources".

which came true to a large extent,nagarjuna sagar,singareni coal etc..are some of the examples.

when andhra and telangana merged on the basis of agreement,when that agreement is broken,telanganites have every right to demerge from andhra pradesh.

Starting from education or literature

If we look at the AP’s literature, there are not many references to telangana’s freedom,or telangana sayudha poratam,or telangana culture, since most of the Andhra Pradesh history is written by andhrites, the total life of telanganites under nizam rule is neglected by Andhra literates.

Great Telangana poets like Kaloji,Dasarathi were completely neglected in AP,no body even knows that they even existed.
Even Telanagana independence day(sep17,1948) was not celebrated or even mentioned anywhere in the history books we read in our schools,our leaders can question this,but they are in the process of developing thier family and wealth these things didnt matter to them.

Jobs

Since andhrites are well educated and since they have more influence in government, they were able to get more than 80% of the jobs in capital city as well as other telangana districts.
Look at the secreteriat jobs for example,morethan 85% are non telanganites, now how can we expect and GO would pass in favour of telangana?.
Out of 14 lakh government jobs only 2.5 lakhs are telanganites.

IN 1985 NTR(andhra born leader) accepted the injustice in job sector happend to telangana,he made to pass 610 GO,locals should be given local jobs,that has never been implemented so far,after 2001 after a strong fright from TRS,CBN did put girglani commison to enquire or examine the loopholes happening in 610 GO,this commision reported that more than 2 ,50,000 non telanganites are working in telangana offices illegally.
Promise has been made by govts to solve that problem,but promise just remained as promise never been implemented.

Culture

Telangana culture was never represented properly, one of the biggest festivals of telangana “bathukamma” which would be more than 10 days and sammakka-sarakka,perela festivals were not given enough importance in AP(textbooks,history &media).

Language or Accent

Our accent is being humiliated by most of the non telangana people.
Some say we cant speak telugu, some say ours is a mix of urdu and telugu.
But most of the people say our telugu is not pure..
Actually what is pure telugu?, who defined pure telugu?, theres is no answer to that question.

Movies & Media(99% andhra dominated)

Movies take great pleasure in humiliating our language, they made fun of our accent thousands of times in many movies.
I don’t know why?, hero always speak coastal language and most of the villans or comedians speak our accent,I don’t what do they mean by that, do they think we are either bad or funny!.
Now these are the same people who say all telugu brothers should stay united, so called “oka thalli biddalam(Children of one mother)” ,Do they think rest of the Indians are someone else Children,why dont they remember so called teluguthalli while they are insulting our culture or language in movies?like laughing in the name of telangana ramayanam,baratham?,what the hell are these,dont you feel bad or dont you think your self respect is hurt, if someone makes fun of your mom or dad,language is as sacred as parents for everybody.

Movies(excpet very few 1/1000) never show the life or lifestyle of telangana People in adilabad,medak,nizambad,mahaboobnagar etc districts except hyderabad,they started showing hyderabad only after shifting film industry(1980's) to hyd,they rarely shot in hyd prior to that.

Agriculture

Godavari and Krishna follow through telangana with good catchment area(more than 70%),
Most of the people don’t know what is catchment area,it’s the area of the river where water can be used for irrigation.

But it was not used even 5% of what it could have been used,since canal water is not used in telangana,telangana had to depend up on ground water,eventually ground water drains out as you drill lot of bores,many farmers have commited suicide,telangana holds record in farmer suicides.

Most people say its deccan plateaus,or its uphill area or its upstream flow.
I want to question them,Are you saying river flows upstream in telangana,suddenly entering Andhra it becomes downstream?, the truth is there are some areas in telangana where rivers flow through upstream as it comedown,there are many areas in telangana where proper irrigation methods would help to use water like sriramsagar project,pranahita-chevella.
there are like 10 lift irrigation projects started in telangana only started though,after TRS started to fight for telangana,what does it mean someone has to fight or question thier rights?local telangana congress and tdp leaders are very busy in earning money and living the life of puppet to their bosses like ysr,sonia and chandrababu.
these bosses(YSR,CBN) are very intelligent in choosing candidates,they only choose those telangana leaders who will remain very loyal like a dog,not questioning high command,nodding thier head for every project like polavaram and pothireddypadu,even though lakhs of telangana tribal people will lose thier villages and homes.
There are many more projects that were started, just started though. from 2001 to now.

I wonder why?, its because TRS is always raising telangana slogans and govts wants to kill telangana movement by starting some development.

Hyderabad,A Death Wish

I really pity some seemandhra politicians when they speak about hyd,some say it doesnt belong to telanganites.

they say "it belongs to nizams",nizams are the rulers came to india from arabian countries like persia like how britishers came from europe,britishers built most of the buildings,railways airports in chennai,mumbai,delhi etc..how foolish would it be to say delhi,chennai and mumbai belongs to british not india?.

they really should understand the name of telangana was hyd prior to 1956,hyd was a kind of city has had excess revenue and had facitilities equivalent to delhi during the merger,Dr. Ambedkar wanted hyd to be second capital.

Seemandhra leaders fought for chennai in 1953,which they legally have a right to do so,since they were together in chennai for about 400 years,since majority of chennai are tamilians they couldnt get chennai during separation from Madras,why do they forget that when they claim hyderabad,which was never part of thier region until 1956,and it lies in the middle of telangana.

Not many people know potti sriramulu fought for andhra state with chennai as capital,not just for andhra state.

During his fast on 11thday GOVT sent a message to potti sriramulu saying that it is willing to form andhrastate but without chennai,he didnt agree and continued his fast and eventually sacrificed his life for andhra.

Todays AP assembly was the assembly of telangana until 1956.
Todays AP highcourt is the court of telangana until 1956.
Todays Hyd hospitals are the hospitals Telangana had until 1956.
Most of the railways stations in hyd were already built by 1956 in telangana.Begumpet airport was telangana airport until 1956,just recently we had new airport.Majority of the universties,offices, roads and drainage facilities were developed prior to 1956.

Many seemandra politicians,capitalists started to came to telangana(hyd) in late 70's and early 80's for thier livelihood,they have earned crores and crores of ruppes in hyd,they developed themselves and thier relatives a lot beacuse of hyderabad mainly real estate,and now they say that they developed hyd.

During NTR and CBN rule many people from coastal districts,During YSR many people from rayalaseema came to hyd,used thier power to grab lands(nearly 4 lakh acres) under special econimic zones and do their real estate business,ex.lanco hills,kavuri hills.

There are some telangana locals too in this scandal,but mostly its the ruling party government relatives and family members who does lot of land grabbing.

It was fifth most developed city then,now it has dropped to 6th place after banglore.

is this the great development thats done in AP?

Information Technology is a great developement,but IT is a global phenomenon,every important city in india has it,infact chennai and banglore has more IT than our hyd.

everybody agrees IT is great, but many people project it happend only because of andhra pradesh state status,which is untrue.
Hyd had its IT because of its infrastructure,not the otherway around..

the real developement is which helps majority of people,one such example electricity was introduced in hyd in 1919,where in chennai or banglore it was introduced in 1930 or later,thats how advanced hyd was prior to 1956.

the real development is how many new railway stations,schools,hospitals have been developed.
do we have international airport?,the new airport was developed in 2009,while the rest of the cities are operating as international airports already.

Telanganites are demanding telangana right from 1956,since the merger(against the wishes of telanganites),telanganites started protests in 1956,1961,1969,1985,1996(TelanaganaVidyavanthulaVediaka formed),2000(BJP was ready to give telangana,but CBN resisted) and in 2001 TRS formed,2009/2010(peoples movement) irrespective of so called hyd developement,thier telangana demand remained constant,telanganites never asked thier share in tirupati,vizag,vijayawada or whatever seemadhra revenue generators are,only because thier single point agenda is telangana right from the merger,telangana word was banned in late 70's to 80's,90's,by govts people were forced to forget,lot of telangana supporters were encountered&killed in the name of naxaites during that period,after 1969 movement naxalites increased drastically manily because of hatred towards government since they crushed telangana movement by killing 400 students in osmania.

Cons of Hyderabad in AP

Having only one big city in state has many disadvantages like it centralizes too much,i mean it will tend to become administrative,financial,industrial,entertainment,educational and sports capital,there by increases the population,pollution and worst problem is traffic.
We should decentralize big cities,and make sure we have 2 or 3 big cities in every state. telangana might provide that solution,as andhra would have to concentrate on new capital,whichwould greatly help their infrastructure ,provide new jobs to lakhs of people and would be affordable to their people,and there by it helps decentralize hyd.the other disadvantage of hyd right now is,as the industries keep growing in one place, the industrial waste is contaminating the water of nalgonda districts causing fluoride problems,lakhs of children are being born with worst disabilities.
but we often dont care what happens in our neighbouring nalgonda,we only see our our IT and how industries are growing.
By any means i am not saying hyd doesnt belong to seemandhra people it belongs to all people in india,but geographically it is in telangana and it belongs to telangana,it would be unfair on seemadhra leaders to say they developed hyd and claim it,everybody contributed for hyderabad,everybody got something from hyderabad.

How can telanganaState be a solution

Even gandhi quoted the following under british rule,when british rulers said "We developed roads,we constructed dams we bulit hospitals we developed india alot,india didnt have none of these when we came here",Gandhi answered you might have given us everything but you took our self respect.

Gandhi said "Development can never substitute selfrespect,selfgovernence and and sef rule".

you might say britishers are other nationals,but we are indians,but it doesnt matter as long as telanganites think andhra rulers are not one of them,same rule should apply for telanganites.

By forming telangana

1. Telangana can gain its self respect,they dont have to be under somebody(in thier own land) to ask or fight for anything.
2. They can concentrate on thier forgotten lands to develop,use water accordingly like how rest of the states are using the catchment area when they have rivers flowing through them.
3. They can learn thier forbidden culture and feel proud of thier cultural identity,which would be very difficult to maintain in AP.
4. Out if 14 lkh govt jobs,telangana will get ts share of 6 lakhs jobs+,with the net increase of almost 3 lakhs+ jobs for telnagana.
5. Singereni coal can be used to supply good amount of electricty to telangana farmers since they will be depending up on lift irrigantion methods.
6. Many new universities,colleges and schools can be constructed on population basis,right now telangana doesnt even have 30% of schools or colleges or universities,as they constitute 40% of AP population,and area wise they are nearly 42% of AP.
7. Telanagana can help hyd decentralise some of its industries,adminstration to new capital of andhra,there by decreasing pollution,popultion and traffic,there by making neighboring districts little bit safer.
All of this may not make sense to most of my seemandhra friends,I want to say one last thing if you look any sector its dominated by andhra capitalists mainly coastal region,well there is a historical reason for their domination.
during early 1900's sir arthurcotton developed great irrigation projects and constructed good schools,libraries in coastal region there by people living that region fluorished way ahead then rest of the area's there by gaining economical and social advantage they started to start thier enterprises,when people from one region gains some social &economic advantage,they often tend to undetermined other cultures & identities,this eventually started to become more and more and people from other regions feel underdeveloped like telangana,uttarandhra,rayalaseema.

Finally im not saying separate telangana is the only solution,but as far as i am and as well as telanganites(general public,students,lawyers,doctors,minorities,caste organisations and political leaders) are concerned,telangana state will solve many of the problems,mainly bringing our selfrespect,this self respect will not make sense to most of non telanganites,because you have to be a telaganite to understand how it feels to be a telanganite,the same reason why we fought against britishers and the same reason why andhra separated from madras state.

Why not telangana ?

Even if you dont agree with my theories,why dont we take some smaller states example that were formed in india.
Punjab and Haryana,both have rapidly increased their GDP after forming 2 entites and living peace fully since separation.
gujarat and maharastra,everybody were scared and thought gujarat wouldnt survive without mumbai and maharastra when separating from maharastra,now gujarat is one of the india most developed states.
new states uttaranchal,chattisgarh and jharkand,these 3 states recorded increase of 180,150 and 100% increase in GDP,while india recorded 75% increase since 2001.
some people say jharkand has some administrative problems after becomming state,they should remember that jharkand always had problems even when they were in bihar,what matters is how state was able to increase the revenue and develop,this was mentioned by then finance minster Chidambaram(homeminister).
smaller states would give better governance,and accessibility of resources to the people would increase dramatically.

Common Misunderstandings between telanganites and seemandhrites

Telanganites easily blame andhrites for every distress of thiers,which is not good,its the mistake of our ancestors,who failed to implement some of the safeguards to protect telanganites.

If there is someone to blame it should be telangana leaders who never really thought whats good for their region,had they been loyal to telangana, merger wouldnt have happened.

Andhrites think telanganites always complain,and they are lazy to do anything,which is also false,for example

If we think since 1956 we(andhra and telangana) are running a 100m developement running race,seemandhra started from 30m(development index),telangana started from 4m,now you cant say telangana is lazy as its fallen behind,since telangana and andhra were never at the same levels to compete.

Telangana underdevelopment is not because of andhrites exploitation,its just the historical mistake,whoever is in the place of andhrites everybody would do the same(even if Telanganites are in andhrites place) try to protect their own interests.

Rich would dominate poor,rich people culture will dominate poor people culture,but when poor starts to become independent he will question rich domination,that is what telangana in short is

I sincerely apologize if i hurt somebody's sentiments,my statistics may not be accurate,but i tried to as accurate as i can by doing some research.

**Disclaimer**

whatever i said in my blog is just my opinion.

your sincerely,
krishna.