Telangana: The divide that won’t be bridged

The Telugu people’s agitation for a separate state and their leader’s death by hunger strike led in 1953 to the creation of Andhra state, made up of the two Telugu regions of Madras province: Coastal Andhra, and Rayalaseema. The third Telugu region — Telangana — had been part of the Nizam’s state of Hyderabad since 1724. The States Reorganisation Commission recommended, in 1955, that Telangana, in excellent financial health, be a separate state. It had been incorporated into the Indian Union in September 1948 after the Indian Army ended the Nizam’s rule.

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