📍Demand for Dravida Nadu
✅Going back to the journey of Regionalism in India, it is noticeable that it emerged with Dravidian Movement, which started in Tamil Nadu in 1925. This movement, also known as ‘Self-Respect Movement’ initially focused on empowering Dalits, non-Brahmins, and poor people.
✅Later it stood against imposition of Hindi as sole official language on non-Hindi speaking areas. But it was the demand of carving out their own Dravidistan or Dravida Nadu, which made it a secessionist movement. As early as 1960s the DMK proposed that the states of Madras, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Mysore should secede from the Indian union and form an independent ‘Republic of Dravida Nadu’.
📍Telangana Movement
✅In the years after the formation of Andhra Pradesh, people of Telangana expressed dissatisfaction over howthe agreements and guarantees were implemented.
✅Discontent with the 1956 Gentleman’s agreement intensified in January 1969, when the guarantees that had been agreed upon, were supposed to lapse.
✅Government employees and opposition members of the state legislative assembly threatened ‘direct action’ in support of the students who spearheaded the movement.
✅This movement since then finally culminated with formation of separate state of Telangana on 2nd June, 2014.
✅It should be noted that roots of disparity in two regions was in colonial rule. Andhra was under direct rule of crown while Telangana was ruled by Nizam of Hyderabad, who was not so efficient ruler . So over time Andhra got more developed in comparison to Telangana.
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✅Going back to the journey of Regionalism in India, it is noticeable that it emerged with Dravidian Movement, which started in Tamil Nadu in 1925. This movement, also known as ‘Self-Respect Movement’ initially focused on empowering Dalits, non-Brahmins, and poor people.
✅Later it stood against imposition of Hindi as sole official language on non-Hindi speaking areas. But it was the demand of carving out their own Dravidistan or Dravida Nadu, which made it a secessionist movement. As early as 1960s the DMK proposed that the states of Madras, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Mysore should secede from the Indian union and form an independent ‘Republic of Dravida Nadu’.
📍Telangana Movement
✅In the years after the formation of Andhra Pradesh, people of Telangana expressed dissatisfaction over howthe agreements and guarantees were implemented.
✅Discontent with the 1956 Gentleman’s agreement intensified in January 1969, when the guarantees that had been agreed upon, were supposed to lapse.
✅Government employees and opposition members of the state legislative assembly threatened ‘direct action’ in support of the students who spearheaded the movement.
✅This movement since then finally culminated with formation of separate state of Telangana on 2nd June, 2014.
✅It should be noted that roots of disparity in two regions was in colonial rule. Andhra was under direct rule of crown while Telangana was ruled by Nizam of Hyderabad, who was not so efficient ruler . So over time Andhra got more developed in comparison to Telangana.
#society