Brief History: Approximately seven centuries of slavery under the Muslim autocracy and 50 years of democracy have influenced the culture of the Hyderabad City and the State. In the North India, the Muslim rule started with the defeat of the last Hindu and Buddhist empires in Afghanistan in early 7th century, while Vijayanagar (1336-1678) was the last Hindu empire to fall in the South. It took approximately 7 centuries for Islamic marauders to reach the south from the north-west. Telangana, the core of Hyderabad State, came under Muslim rule briefly when Alauddin Khilji from Delhi defeated the emperor Prataparudra of Kakatiya Dynasty that ruled from Warangal as Capitol, on March 19, 1310. The huge booty carried to Delhi by one thousand camels included the famous Kohinoor Diamaond. (Yes, this is the same Allauddin who plundered Chittorgarh for material and carnal booty, including queen Padmini. After a heroic resistance against his brutal Muslim onslaught for about eight months, valiantRajputs were defeated and on the 26th of August 1303, under the leadership of Rani Padmini, the Rajput women plunged themselves into the fire to escape rape and slavery .) Warangal was taken back from Delhi sultanate in 1336 by Vijayanagar dynasty, which fell to Muslims later in 1678 and became part of Golconda state under Mughals. Nizam gifted away coastal Andhra to French in 1752 unable to control the resistance and hostile nature of people from andhra and rayalaseema, who were already literate and organised and were rich in agriculture hertiage and tradition. East India Company acquired Andhra from the French in 1766, which became part of Madras province of the British Empire. However, Hyderabad (Golconda) remained part of various Muslim dynasties for 7 centuries uninterrupted: Delhi sultanate (1310-1336), independent Bahmani sultanate - a major Muslim dynasty that ruled central and south India (1345-1512), Turkman Qutub Shahi dynasty of Golconda kingdom (1512-1687), Mughal Dynasty of Delhi (1687- 1724) and Nizam dynasty of Hyderabad (1724-1948).
Liberation: There was an increase in political and cultural awareness among peoples of Hindu religions of Hyderabad State at the end of 19 th century. As part of Nizam's grand design to counter the growing cultural and political awareness among Hindus (~90% of the total population at the time) in the state, the Telugu names of districts, for example, Elagandala, Palamuru, Induru, and Metuku were changed to Karim Nagar, Mahaboob Nagar, Nizamabad, and Medak respectively, and towns like Manukota and Bhuvanagir were renamed as Mahaboobnagar and Bhongir respectively in 1905. Village names ending in padu were changed to pahad. At the same time a proclamation was issued making Hyderabad State an Islamic state. In 1911, Mir Osman Ali Khan succeeded to the dynasty. During his rule Islamization of Hyderabad State was intensified. With the encouragement of the Nizam government a blatant communal organization Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen was formed. This organization along with "Anjuman Tabli Gulistan" inaugurated Tablig movement to convert Hindus to Islam. In August 1919, Osmania University was founded to impart higher education in Urdu medium to Muslims and Urdu speaking Hindus in Telangana. This was the first ever University in the last millennium in the Telugu land! The second university established was Andhra University in Andhra region of Madras province under the British raj in 1925. (The number of institutions of higher education per capita in Andhra Pradesh is way way way below that of any advanced country.)
Of course, the Nizam dynasty’s intentions were to annihilate the Hindu languages and cultures. Hindu students had to face many hardships and restrictions at the University. The Hindu cultures and religions were openly ridiculed, e.g., during Milad-un-Nabi celebrations of 1937, Prof. Maulvi Nazarul Hassan Gilani openly admonished the Muslims for their failure to convert Hindus to Islam by saying, " I am pained to see the inertness amongst Muslims, when there exist still 22 million of ‘Dung Worshippers’ in this country (Hyderabad State)." Similarly, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, father of Islamic State of Pakistan (Islamic Pure State), addressed the students of Osmania University as "my Muslim students," ignoring Hindus among the students.
Kasim Razvi, the president of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen ( YES the current MIM party in HYDERABAD )in erstwhile Hyderabad State, believed that he was destined to plant Asafia flag on the Red Fort in Delhi and make the waves of the Bay of Bengal wash the feet of Nizam. He was successful in intoxicating thousands of Muslims of Hyderabad State to enroll as razakars and take pledge to maintain the Muslim supremacy in Deccan and Hyderabad State. When the British left the Indian Continent in 1947, the Nizam wished to remain independent, while Hindus wanted to join the democratic Indian Union. A series of riots and mayhem, known as Razakarmovement were instigated by the Nizam and Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen party against popular demand "Join India" to join the Indian Union and overthrow the Muslim autocracy. Finally, the Hyderabad State joined the Indian Union with the help of the Union army in 1948, in an action popularly known as the police action. However, communal riots between Muslims and Hindus continued due to communal ‘divide and rule policy’ and minority-vote-bank politics of Congress party until saffron clad Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao (NTR) became Chief Minister.
Now Kasim Razvi the Razakaar Leader, went unpunished with a few years in jail, however his crimes against the innocent telangana people were much much cruel than Gen Dyer , which went unrecorded into history. There were many jalianwala bagh's here, it was just that there were no survivors even from press to report such incidents, the Razaakars sometimed killed more than 2000 people a day , and looted and raped thousands of women , and kidnapped them only to be gifted to the NIZAM , and all these kidnapped women were kept in KOTA, or KOTE, where in the NIZAM always had 3000 women for his pleasure and entertainment , and that area primarily is now called KING KOTI in hyderabad , one of the primary reasons why there is a huge shopping for woman till date . The Razakaars burned dozens of villages, slaughtering men like cows and goats, and in some villages , the poor people sent thier own sisters and mothers and wives along with razakaars so that they would be spared , this is the time where the popular telangana term " nee kalmokuta banchan" came alive.There were special village squads formed to protect themselves by the people of telanagana, but most of them were small packs of resistance who lacked both skill and arms to stand against the mighty Razakaars, and they were easily supressed, except for a few baironpalli incidents there were no major victories against the Razakaars.
700 years of muslim rule, it was during this period, that telangana was forced into Islamization, they were speaking TURDU, a combination of urdu and Telugu, and lost most of thier diction, and culture and way of living .the only occupation was to work for the muslim rulers, or no work.Education was completely sidelined, basic aminities like food , cloth, shelter were a luxury , woman were not allowed to step out and it was more of a drought in telanagana for more than 4 centuries until Hyderabad was formed.
Now after the independence, Hyderabad was the last territory to join Union of India, but Nizam tried all his ways to make it a part of Pakistan Just like Bangladesh.However he dint have much of a choice so had to surrender to the indian army led by Gen Chauduri. Now telangana became a part of AP in 1950 , alhtough there wasnt any separate state of AP, but in 1956 the first state in independent india that was formed under linguistic base is AP.
the history of Telangana tells you that it was the muslim rulers and NIZAM who ruined this area, depriving them of thier basic right to live , and it took a lot of time to telangana to recuperate from the 700 year old tyranny and even today it has not came out of its cluthes yet completely.only telangana has its district names like Karimnagar, Medak,Mahbubnagar, Adilabad, Khammam, however None of the districts in other parts of AP are named or were given a choice to show thier muscle over the region.
1. Nizam has occupied almost all the districts in telangana, but he couldnt occupy Vijayawada which is just 300 Km away from Hyderabad, Vijayawada was once a hud for all telanagana activits and lobbyists to oppose nizam as they were not allowed to meet in telangana.
2.Post independence Telangana was again taken over by the rich landlords and feudal lords who worked under Nizam in various positions or who Managed to maintain thier power with money and muscle naming Velama Dora's .(KCR is a Velama Dora).
3.If there was any Dark age in telangana after Nizams it was under Velama Dora's.
4. Unable to see these atrocities against the poor and innocent telangana people, Kondapalli Seetaramaiah the Master mind and founder of PEOPLE'S WAR GROUP Naxalites took the side of people and started feudal fight with the landlords, which resulted in another blood shed phase .
5. Why did Kondapalli seetaramaiah come and fight for telangana people all way from guntur? wasnt he a Andhrite?
6.Today some politcial leaders Biased towards telanagana say, even before Coasta and Seema , there was rich hyderabad samstanam, i agree but it was the muslim samstanam not telangana samstanam, isnt it?
7.KCR says andhrites looted telanagana than nizam , he is supporting the same tyrant who wanted to convert 22 million telangana people into islam and called them DUNG WORSHIPPERS.
8. It was the telangana people who could not resist Nizam effectively in any stage, they themselves have pushed themselves into dark ages.
9. while the people from coastal equipped themselves with agriculture , education, state of living from british in this 700 old period and also from prosperous rulers like Sri krishna devaraya, telanagana people had no knowledge or chance of evolving at all, i would not blame them.
10.People of telangana are innocent which is why when ever a idiot cunning politician wants some mileage they Used telanagan sentiment as thier weapon only to prosper themselves.
11. KCR who talks so much about telangana, did not even approve one single file in favour of that region during his term as a minister in both NTR and CBN cabinet for over 10 years. who stopped him to do any good for this region?
12. Do you know that 90% of the money that was been pumped into Hyderabad is from coastal districs?
13. Do you know W.Godavari and E.Godavari are the two second richest districts in India?
14. D o you know that more than any other city Hyderabad has more number of expensive cars ?
Lastly none of the people in any area or district have anything against telanagana except it is created and maintained by politcians, who would fall to any extent to aquire power.People of AP are wise and matured, they are emotional but not idiots, and i am always proud to be a Andhrite, which includes my telangana , rayalaseema, and coasta.i have many friends who never cribbed about other regions which clearly says what is in people's mind.
