The Fall and Rise of Telangana
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Gautam Pingle
Orient Blackswan
344 pages, Rs 395
The state of Andhra Pradesh was created in 1956 by merging the Telangana region, formerly a part of the princely state of Hyderabad, with the coastal regions of Andhra and Rayalaseema, both previously in Madras state. Despite several agreements, laws and government orders safeguarding the interests of the people of Telangana, the author—a former dean of research and consultancy at the Administrative Staff College of India in Hyderabad—argues that they have been victims of exploitation and broken promises. Pingle painstakingly dissects the Telangana problem, and proposes a model for the trifurcation of Andhra Pradesh along equitable and just lines.
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