101 Lies & Dubious Arguments Of #Telangana Separatists - Lie #3

Lie #3: Telangana under the rule of Nizam had no relations with Andhra, which was under British rule.

Despite different political dispensations across regions during British and Nizam rule, the Telugu people yearned for one administrative and political unit, since their cultural and social
unity continued to be as strong as ever. In Andhra Pitamaha Maadapati Hanumantha Rao Jeevita Charitra there is a reference to Nawab Aliyavar Jung, a senior official in the Nizam Government,
saying to Sri Madapati Hanumanth Rao: “it came to our government’s notice that the purpose of your Andhra movement is to merge the Andhra districts of Madras and the Andhra districts in Nizam’s dominion”.

Nizam has given incentives to people of coastal region by a firmana and encouraged them to come and settle in Nizamabad, Adilabad, and Warangal under the then newly constructed irrigation projects. The Telangana Armed Struggle attests to the fact that the shared cultural heritage was the prime reason for working together of peoples on either side of the artificial borders to bring down the Nizam regime. Many leading lights of the undivided Communist Party of India from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions such as Chandra Rajeswara Rao, P Sundarayya, M Basavapunnaiah and
Tammareddy Satyanarayana played crucial role in the historic Telangana Armed Struggle and acted in concert with the leaders from the Nizam region like Ravi Narayana Reddy, Devulapalli Venkateswara Rao, Bhimreddy Narasimha Reddy, Makhdoom, and Baddam Yellareddy. Many leaders of the Andhra unit of the Communist Party led the guerrilla squads during the Telangana struggle.

For example, Kasani Narayana acknowledged that the marching song of the then Telangana fighters – “Telugu talli biddalam, Telangana veerulam, Matrudesa mukti koraku porusalpa kadilinaam” (We the children of Telugu maatha, warriors from Telangana, fighting for the liberation of motherland are on a warpath) was composed by Sunkara Satyanarayana, a communist writer and fighter from Krishna district of coastal Andhra. It is the same Sunkara Satyanarayana who, along with Vasireddy Bhaskara Rao wrote the magnificent and popular play ‘Maa Bhoomi’ (Our Land) in 1947. It inspired millions of people (mainly in Telangana but also in Andhra) into anti-feudal struggles. The Praja Natya Mandali troupe which staged this play had artists mostly from the coastal Andhra region. The
play was performed in border areas of Andhra (as it was not permitted in Telangana) to enable the people from Telangana districts to watch. “All these factors emphasise the nature of the Telangana struggle, namely that it was the concerted action of the leaders of both the units of the Communist Party of India in Telangana and Andhra” wrote P R Rao in his book History of Modern Andhra.
The separatists would not even like to mention about the glorious Telangana Armed Struggle because it was a fine example of the oneness of all Telugus.