There was seperate Telanagana movement in 1969 followed by separate Andhra movement with Indira Gandhi ending in 1972 it saying AP will be United state. Following that PVNR also lost CM post.
That seperate andhra movement is a reactionary movement to the perception of discrimination in telangana region, the mulki raj. However, its a good gauge for understanding the telangana movement.
Telangana telugus were discriminated peoples during the hundreds of years of Qutub Shah and Nizam rules. Telanganites were virtually isolated from rest of India in geography and language. They were forced to transact in urdu for all official business, until Sardar Patel took over Hyderabad state. So, they were neither masters of British laws, British Language or telugu language as andhrites were under Madras Presidency.
In 1956/57 when the formation of the state for telugus was announced, telanganites joined on a condition that Hyderabad be made the capital. Their hope was, the capital city in the heart of telangana would open up the opportunities for them.
Prior to hyderabad becoming the capital city, a town from another backward region was chosen as the capital, Kurnool. Govt. employees of Madras presidency were given a choice of working for either Madras State or newly formed Andhra state. Most andhrites choose Andhra State like my parents along with many tamilians who saw this as opportunity for quick promotions.
After a year and half to two years stint in Kurnool, Andhar state govt. employees were moved to Telangana,. That was in 1957/58.
New govt. housing colonies were built for the new migrated state govt. workers. Vijayanagar colony was one of the first once. Most of the houses were automatically allocated to andhraites. Naturally, these colonies came to be known as andhra colonies.
Fast forward 70s. Anyone who visited any state govt. office in Hyderabad would notice two distinct types of offices. New govt. offices like secretariat, board of revenue etc. were full of people from andhra. Some old offices in old city like pension (dont recall the name) are full of hyderabadi muslims and some telanagana telugus.
People tend to prefer their "kind". So the new state govt. employees were also overwhelmingly andhrites.
So, the native telanganites did not benefit much from the formation of the state. Thus came 1969 movement and mulki.
If we support Jai Andhra agitiation as a movement against discrimination, how can we be against Jai Telangana movement as they suffered lost worse discrimiantion?
