Andhra Pradesh (1953-2014) - Revision history

Pdewan at 22:16, 14 June 2014

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Pdewan: Pdewan moved page Andhra Pradesh (1953-2013) to Andhra Pradesh (1953-2014)

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Pdewan moved page Andhra Pradesh (1953-2013) to Andhra Pradesh (1953-2014)

Pdewan at 22:15, 14 June 2014

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Pdewan: /* Andhra Pradesh (1953-2013) */

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‎Andhra Pradesh (1953-2013)

Pdewan: /* Telangana and Andhra: 1953-2013 */

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‎Telangana and Andhra: 1953-2013

Pdewan at 19:01, 2 June 2014

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Pdewan: /* The people Andhra and Telangana: differences between */

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‎The people Andhra and Telangana: differences between

Pdewan: /* The break-up of Andhra Pradesh */

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‎The break-up of Andhra Pradesh

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‎What the break-up of Andhra Pradesh means for the Telugu people=

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 ==The Inevitability Of Telangana==
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+Redrawing Andhra Pradesh’s map stems from the Congress’s electoral compulsions
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 At the same time, the steady inflow of people from Andhra into Hyderabad and the overwhelmingly large population in that region aided in the narrative of domination. Politically, this meant that the Andhra region was more influential in terms of the number of legislators it sent to the assembly. The passage of time neither diminished the sentiment in Telangana nor caused the proliferation of a common culture.
-The movement for Telangana’s statehood revived with the creation of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand in 2000. This time, the political movement was spearheaded by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS). The Congres allied with the TRS in the 2004 elections to defeat the Telugu Desam Party which was in power for two terms and appeared invincible. But once in power, the Congres showed little resolve to create Telangana. By the time of the 2009 general elections, the Congres had gone back on its promise.
+The movement for Telangana’s statehood revived with the creation of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand in 2000. This time, the political movement was spearheaded by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS). The Congress allied with the TRS in the 2004 elections to defeat the Telugu Desam Party which was in power for two terms and appeared invincible. But once in power, the Congress showed little resolve to create Telangana. By the time of the 2009 general elections, the Congress had gone back on its promise.
-The Congres’s decision now to create Telangana arises out of political compulsions: non-fulfilment of its promise would mean certain rout in the region in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. There are renewed demands for the formation of new states and they will certainly gain momentum in the days to come. The pulls and pressures from various quarters will become increasingly strong, especially in the event of another coalition government at the Centre after the 2014 elections.
+The Congress’s decision now to create Telangana arises out of political compulsions: non-fulfilment of its promise would mean certain rout in the region in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. There are renewed demands for the formation of new states and they will certainly gain momentum in the days to come. The pulls and pressures from various quarters will become increasingly strong, especially in the event of another coalition government at the Centre after the 2014 elections.
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 More than 60 out of 175 MLAs from Seemandhra belong to the Reddy community, whose loathing for the Kammas, who have 24 MLAs from Seemandhra, is well known. The Reddy leaders have thus made it clear they would never agree on a capital anywhere around Vijayawada or Guntur, as these are Kamma strongholds, and favour Tirupati or Kurnool or even Ongole.
-“The central coastal districts of Krishna and Guntur are Kamma districts. The Congres does not want to make Reddys’ arch-rivals, the Kammas, prosper,” said a top Reddy leader.
+“The central coastal districts of Krishna and Guntur are Kamma districts. The Congress does not want to make Reddys’ arch-rivals, the Kammas, prosper,” said a top Reddy leader.
 Sensing trouble, the AP Chamber of Commerce and other merchant bodies, represented by Kammas in Krishna, have begun lobbying for Vijayawada.

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 Implicit in the creation of linguistic states was the belief that language is the basis of culture. If the same language was spoken across a state it meant that it represented homogenous culture. But this was a faulty belief to start with. In fact, Andhra Pradesh was the first state that was created on a linguistic basis. The state was created much against the wishes of the people of Telangana. They did not want the region to be merged with the Andhra state (formed in 1953 after separation from Madras state) as they felt that Andhra’s culture was different from Telangana.
-=== The people Andhra and Telangana: differences between===
+=== The people of Andhra and Telangana: differences between===
 They roughly spoke the same language but the Sanskritised Telugu of Andhra was different from the Telugu of Telangana that was influenced by Dakhni, an admixture of Urdu, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada. Besides, the cultures of the two people were different and so were their festivals and food habits.
 Coupled with this cultural disconnect were the different endowments of the two people. Under the Madras presidency during British rule, the people of Andhra were educated in English, but the Nizam’s state that governed the Telangana region used Urdu as the medium of instruction and administration.
 As a result of the sophisticated irrigation systems the British introduced in the Andhra region farming prospered and farmers reaped surpluses which they reinvested. This led to a culture of entrepreneurship and risk-taking among the wealthy. In sharp contrast, the feudal zamindari system, based on exploitation rather than enterprise, dominated the Nizam’s territory.
 ===Which was the Andhra Telugus’ main city?===
 The formation of Andhra Pradesh was the result of a merger between two regions – Telangana and Andhra. But it was in essence an unequal marriage. Since the Andhra region had no large cities (prior to their separation from Madras state, the Andhra Telugus treated Madras city as their own), the capital was located in the Nizam’s Hyderabad, a sprawling, well-planned city.

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 “We threw everything at Naidu that we could. It was a desperate move,” a key follower and Cogress minister from Andhra recalled.
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 ‘Rump state to be eco powerhouse’
 The new rump state that will remain after Telangana is carved out will emerge as an economic powerhouse with the growth of coastal AP and cities like Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada, many feel. In the past four to five years coastal Andhra industrialists have pumped money into the region, in pharma, chemicals and petrochemicals.
 =’Rayala Telangana’: Caste and power=

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 =The break-up of Andhra Pradesh=
 POWER SHIFT
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+==What the break-up of Andhra Pradesh means for the Telugu people==
 ==Divided AP to lose political clout==