TSPSC GROUP I Mains Paper VI

Establishment of Nizam’s Subjects League known as the Mulki League 1935 and its Significance   Mulki is a Persian word and means countrymen. The origin of the Mulki issue can be traced to the migration of Muslims to the Deccani plateau during the medieval period. The first wave of Muslim migrants came to Deccani Plateau … Read more

The Gentlemen’s agreement of Andhra Pradesh was signed between Telangana and Andhra leaders before the formation of the state of Andhra Pradesh of India in 20 feb- 1956. The agreement provided safeguards with the purpose of preventing discrimination against Telangana by the government of Andhra Pradesh. The violations of this agreement are cited as one … Read more

At the time of independence in 1947, India consisted of 571 disjointed princely states that were merged together to form 27 states. The grouping of states at the time was done on the basis of political and historical considerations rather than on linguistic or cultural divisions, but this was a temporary arrangement. On account of … Read more

Five Point Programme The Prime Minister announced her Five Point Programme on November 27, 1972. According to it, the Public Employment Act was to be extended to include civil assistant surgeons and junior engineers, with the proviso that the safeguards were to be in force only until December 1977 in the twin cities and December … Read more

The Government of Andhra Pradesh reviewed the operation of the domiciliary rules in 1968 and found that in regard to certain categories of posts, to which recruitment was by competitive examination, the proportion of successful candidates able to meet residency qualifications would be low if the examination was to be a combined one open to … Read more

The Telangana demand basically sprang from the identity of the Telangana people, culture, and dialect and their overall character. It is not based on the grievances of backwardness. For, the districts of what forms Telangana today were well developed even before the formation of the state. For example, they are considerably more developed than north-coastal … Read more

Telangana Praja Samithi (TPS) or Telangana Peoples convention was an Indian Political Party, which fought for separate statehood for Telangana. TPS was founded in 1969. The founder president was Ananthula Madan Mohan. TPS orgarnized a series of strikes and demonstrations throughout the Telangana region to push their demands for a separate state. The founding president … Read more

Telangana People’s Armed Struggle Ittehadul Muslimeen and razakars The party has roots back to the days of the princely State of Hyderabad. It was founded and shaped by Nawab Mahmood Nawaz Khan Qiledar of Hyderabad State with the “advice” of Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad and in the presence of Ulma-e-Mashaeqeen … Read more

As early as 1952, people of Hyderabad had revolted against alien rule. Six students laid down their lives in the anti-non-Mulki agitation. This agitation too was betrayed as also the 1956 agitation against the merger of Telangana with the Andhra State. The policy of intervention began in 1868 when the traditional ruler of Hyderabad State … Read more

The urban middle class and aspiring entrants into it expressed the strongest doubts about Telangana’s future in a united Andhra state. They were especially apprehensive about the effect on the middle classes of largescale in-migration of Andhra cultivators, students, lawyers, and unemployed youth in the event of a merger with Andhra. The aggressive, mobile people … Read more