Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...village of Sher Mohammed Pet, on a main thoroughfare leading into the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, all traffic must come to a halt these days. A handmade green-and-yellow flag flutters over the makeshift roadblock as youths wearing badges demanding statehood for Andhra step out to tax the traveler: "Hey, you pay two rupees for Andhra." The traveler pays or he does not pass. Shouts of "Jai Andhra! Jai Andhra!" (Hail Andhra) go up as he is waved...
...roadblock is a highly visible symbol of the latest of many statehood movements that have 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...
...issue behind the separatist rebellion is primarily economic. The more affluent Andhras charge that the economically depressed Telanganans have demanded special privileges for themselves ever since the two areas were joined together in 1956 to form the state of Andhra Pradesh. The discontent came to a head when the Indian Supreme Court ruled last October that a series of antiquated laws known as the "Mulki rules" were constitutional. The laws, enacted in 1918 to preserve jobs for local workers when the Nizam of Hyderabad was importing help from other parts of India to staff his princely concerns, give preference...
...Gandhi fears that if the Andhras are allowed to have their own separate state, it will open a Pandora's box of similar demands in other states plagued by economic disparities. Already, factions in her home state of Uttar Pradesh, as well as in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, have made known their intention to seek realignment along economic lines. On the other hand, dividing Andhra Pradesh into two states may be the most equitable solution, since the Telanganans are as eager to have a separate state of their own as the Andhras...
...there in a Jeep over a goat path, across creaky wooden bridges-in the midst of a rainstorm. If anything could dry up one's ardor for work, it might be covering a drought in India. New Delhi Correspondent William Stewart journeyed 1,000 miles to remote Andhra Pradesh, spent a day in near-100° heat talking to farmers, and most of the night writing. For his troubles, he contracted dysentery -then learned that publication of the story had been postponed...