Word: telangana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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 in government jobs to the citizens of the capital city of Hyderabad and the surrounding districts of Telangana. Said one Andhras villager: "We are second-class citizens in our own capital city...