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A Comprehensive Record

Telangana Library

Telangana Library

The History of Telangana. From the Kakatiya dynasty to statehood, the land, the struggle, and the decade of transformation that followed.

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This library is a record of Telangana's history, its present and its future, documented from primary sources, official records and the testimony of the movement's own participants. It is written for students, researchers, the general public and the diaspora who carry Telangana in their hearts.

The Record of a Single Day
June 2, 2014: the day Telangana was born
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The Record of an Engineering Epic
Kaleshwaram: the river that climbs
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The Record of a Contract
Six promises, 1956: the ledger of what was kept
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The Complete Record

Eight Chapters

From the land and its people, through the broken promises and the long struggle, to the decisive movement, the transformation that followed statehood, and the new Telangana being built today.

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Chapter One
The Land and Its People
Two thousand five hundred years of Telangana's civilisation. The Kakatiyas, the Qutb Shahis, the Nizams, the culture, the festivals and the identity of a people.
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Chapter Two
The Conditional Merger
The merger of 1956 was not willing. It was conditional. The conditions were broken from the first day.
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III
Chapter Three
The Broken Promises
Revenue diverted. Water denied. Employment taken. Education underfunded. Every promise made in 1956, broken across every decade that followed.
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IV
Chapter Four
The Struggle
From the 1969 uprising to the Mulki Rules, from the Six Point Formula to the farmer suicides. Fifty years of resistance and suppression.
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V
Chapter Five
The Decisive Movement
TRS founded. JAC formed. The streets filled. The hunger strike. Parliament voted. 2 June 2014.
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VI
Chapter Six
The Land Transformed
Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya, Kaleshwaram, Rythu Bandhu. The land, long denied water and investment, transformed in a decade.
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VII
Chapter Seven
The People's Government
Aasara pensions, Dalit Bandhu, KCR Kit, 2BHK housing, 930 residential schools. A welfare state built from the ground up.
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VIII
Chapter Eight
The New Telangana
Power doubled, IT exports tripled, T-Hub, UNESCO recognition for Ramappa. Telangana Implements, India Emulates.
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All Eras
Mix of All
Ancient dynasties to modern governance.
History
Ancient Telangana
Kakatiyas, Qutb Shahis, Nizams.
The Movement
The Struggle
1956 to 2014. Merger, agitation, statehood.
2014 – 2023
The Decade
Schemes, projects, records broken.

A Timeline of Telangana

From the Kakatiya dynasty to the birth of a state. Key moments in a long journey.

1083
The Kakatiya Dynasty
The Telugu kingdom rises at Warangal, building the Ramappa Temple and an irrigation civilisation that shapes Telangana's identity for a thousand years.
1956
The Conditional Merger
Telangana is merged into Andhra Pradesh under a Gentlemen's Agreement that is broken almost from the first day.
1969
Jai Telangana, The First Rising
Students and workers take to the streets. The movement shakes Andhra Pradesh but is suppressed. The struggle goes underground, never extinguished.
2001
TRS is Founded
K. Chandrashekar Rao launches the Telangana Rashtra Samithi with one single, non-negotiable demand: a separate state.
2009
The Hunger Strike
KCR goes on an indefinite hunger strike. The nation watches. The UPA government announces it will form Telangana. The announcement is later walked back. The movement intensifies.
2014
June 2, Statehood
India's 29th state is born. After centuries of identity, decades of struggle, and years of relentless political will, Telangana takes its rightful place on the map.
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Two ways into the record

Not everything in this library is meant to be read. Some of it is meant to be walked through, or found with your own name on it.

The District Record

Your district has
a page

Pull your district's card and the library prints its page: pensions, ration cards, farmers, incomes. Real figures, and a card you can share.

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The Magnifying Glass

Walk inside the
photographs

Three photographs, read up close. Scroll, and the frame moves closer, one detail at a time, across eight hundred years of the same land.

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Telangana is not just a state. It is the vindication of a people who were told their dream was impossible.

K. Chandrashekar Rao, First Address to Telangana, June 2014
This Week in Telangana History
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Years of recorded history, from the Asmaka Janapada to statehood
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Years from the merger of 1956 to statehood on 2 June 2014
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Invested directly in 70 lakh farmers through Rythu Bandhu since 2018
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Of India's new tech jobs in 2023 were created in Telangana

About This Library

Telangana Library is a comprehensive record of Telangana's history, struggle, statehood and transformation. It covers the past, the present, and looks toward a future still being written. Built from primary sources, official government records and the documented evidence of the movement's own participants.

Compiled and curated by Nayini Anurag Reddy.  Read more →