Battleground Telangana: Chronicle of an Agitation

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Battleground Telangana: Chronicle of an Agitation
AuthorKingshuk Nag
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
Subject Telangana movement
Publisher Harper Collins
Publication date
July 2011
ISBN 978-93-5029-074-3

Battleground Telangana: Chronicle of an Agitation is a book written by Kingshuk Nag, a journalist and editor of The Times of India , about the Telangana movement in and before the formation of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. [1] [2] It was released in July 2011.

Kingshuk Nag is an Indian author and editor with The Times of India and a recipient of the Prem Bhatia Award for Outstanding Political Reporting of The Year.

<i>The Times of India</i> Indian English-language daily newspaper

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Synopsis

The book traces the history of the Telangana region and explains the cultural backgrounds of that and the Andhra region. It discusses its past during the rule of the Nizams of Hyderabad, its people's fight for basic needs, as well as the Andhra region under the British Raj era when it was part of Madras Presidency.

British Raj British rule in the Indian subcontinent, 1858-1947

The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called British India or simply India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also informally called the Indian Empire. As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article2213539.ece
  2. ↑ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110624/jsp/opinion/story_14147006.jsp


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