Word: desa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With reporting by Desa Philadelphia with Gore
...plagued India since it won independence from Britain in 1947. In recent months, separatists in the twelve coastal districts of the state of Andhra Pradesh have been demanding the right to break away from the interior region of Telangana and form a new state to be known as Andhra Desa (Andhra Land). The rebel lion has mushroomed into a popular movement with the support of an estimated 99% of the people in the area...