Telangana Movement ~ Padhai Adda

🔸 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.

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