Separate Telangana Movement in India: Democratic Versus Territoria

Unformatted Document Text:  Separate Telangana Movement: Territorial Versus Democratic The paper deals with the Separate Telangana Movement: the issues and the concerns that are involved in it. It concentrates on the brief history of Andhra Pradesh in general and Telangana region in particular. It tries to analyze reasons for the movement and also deals with the three phases of the movement that includes political, economical, cultural and social scenario of the region starting from the 1940s till 2009. The study intends to study societal activism, Dalit perspective and the political developments. It also deals with the response of the government towards the Telangana movement. Study intended to interview the scholars, academicians, artists, activists, students to comprehend and justify the given objectives effectively. The study also tries to understand the Telangana Movement and try asses either people of the Telangana need merely geographical or territorial separate Telangana state or democratic Telangana state. Indian political system is witnesses the complex, critical and complicated social system. It also witnesses the different regions with varied cultures, geographical conditions and developmental scenario. India is passing through the combination of both the traditional and modernity. State is gradually withdrawing its responsibilities from the welfare responsibilities. It resulted in the spurt in people’s movement since two decades. It is well know fact that in Indian system there are many issues involved. For instance, the political fragmentation and linguistic regional insulation; hierarchical social division institutionalized inequality, cultural-ethnic diversity and social intolerance were the basic characteristics of traditional India. These multiple dimensions had shaped the nature and type of social movements. The nationalist ideology subsumed the divergent social movements encompassing into Indian liberation movement. All the spiritual national leaders participated in the national movement irrespective of their caste and culture without selfishness and personal interests but it is argued that positive outlook is lacking in post-independence India. The Nationalist spirit withered away very soon. Negative aspects like the denial of access to productive resources, social discrimination, and 1