🔆Telangana Movement
🔸 This was the biggest peasant guerrilla war of modern Indian history.
🔸 The princely state of Hyderabad under Asajahi Nizams was marked by a combination of religious-
linguistic domination, total lack of political and civil liberties, grossest forms of forced exploitation
by deshmukhs, jagirdars, doras (landlords) in forms of forced labour (vethi) and illegal exactions.
🔸The uprising began in July 1946 when a deshmukh’s thug murdered a village militant in Jangaon
taluq of Nalgonda.
🔸The peasants organised themselves into village sanghams, and attacked using lathis, stone slings
and chilli powder.
🔸The movement was at its greatest intensity between August 1947 and September 1948.
🔸The peasants brought about a rout of the Razaqars—the Nizam’s stormtroopers.
🔸Once the Indian security forces took over Hyderabad, the movement fi zzled out.
🔸The Telangana movement had many positive achievements to its credit.
🔸In the villages controlled by guerrillas, vethi and forced labour disappeared.
🔸Agricultural wages were raised.
🔸Illegally seized lands were restored.
🔸Steps were taken to fi x ceilings and redistribute lands.
🔸Measures were taken to improve irrigation and fi ght cholera.
🔸An improvement in the condition of women was witnessed.
🔸The autocratic-feudal regime of India’s biggest princely state was shaken up, clearing the way for the
formation of Andhra Pradesh on linguistic lines.
#ModernIndia
#prelims
#mains
🔸 This was the biggest peasant guerrilla war of modern Indian history.
🔸 The princely state of Hyderabad under Asajahi Nizams was marked by a combination of religious-
linguistic domination, total lack of political and civil liberties, grossest forms of forced exploitation
by deshmukhs, jagirdars, doras (landlords) in forms of forced labour (vethi) and illegal exactions.
🔸The uprising began in July 1946 when a deshmukh’s thug murdered a village militant in Jangaon
taluq of Nalgonda.
🔸The peasants organised themselves into village sanghams, and attacked using lathis, stone slings
and chilli powder.
🔸The movement was at its greatest intensity between August 1947 and September 1948.
🔸The peasants brought about a rout of the Razaqars—the Nizam’s stormtroopers.
🔸Once the Indian security forces took over Hyderabad, the movement fi zzled out.
🔸The Telangana movement had many positive achievements to its credit.
🔸In the villages controlled by guerrillas, vethi and forced labour disappeared.
🔸Agricultural wages were raised.
🔸Illegally seized lands were restored.
🔸Steps were taken to fi x ceilings and redistribute lands.
🔸Measures were taken to improve irrigation and fi ght cholera.
🔸An improvement in the condition of women was witnessed.
🔸The autocratic-feudal regime of India’s biggest princely state was shaken up, clearing the way for the
formation of Andhra Pradesh on linguistic lines.
#ModernIndia
#prelims
#mains