present new state of Telangana is a resolution of prolonged statehood movement of the masses due to structural deprivation and exclusion from the development processes over the years in the united Andhra Pradesh. Thus, new state reflects the dreams and hopes of the multitude. Today it is almost vital to read the new state’s development process towards fulfilling the social inclusion with holistic development. The movement witnessed for the immense participation of marginalized sections of the club. They hold lots of expectations and promises because it comprises nearly 90 percent of the population of the groups such as SCs, STs, OBCs and Muslims (Census 2011). The masses of the region felt that ‘good development’ and ‘social inclusion’ could be possible exclusively in a separate state of Telangana. Tribes or Adivasis, who resided at the tail end of the development pyramid and deprived in the undivided A.P., also having similar hopes. On the other side, three hundred farmers committed suicides due to severe agrarian distress in the span of one year of the new state. In this setting, this article analyzes the growth process in the young state of Telangana in post state bifurcation period.
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The paper explores the demand for separate Telangana State out of Andhra Pradesh. In the process an effort is made to find out the legitimacy of the claims made by the supporters of Telangana state. Recent India has witnessed an upsurge in the demand for the creation of new states. Though such demands has not been new one as the history of India shows ample of such examples where the regions have been demanding separate statehood. The change that has surfaced now is the shift in the nature of these demands. Earlier the reorganization was insisted on the basis of language and ethnicity but now the claims are made more on the grounds of administrative efficiency and economic development. The unequal development of regions, unequal access to political power and introduction of economic reforms has all led to the demands for the creation of new states.
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Politics in the state of Telangana are akin to politics in post-colonial nations. Where the party that spearheads demand for statehood enjoys massive support and becomes the natural heir of the movement and the throne. This however also is coupled with enormous burden and expectations of the people to lift them from social and economic backwardness and poverty. So far the natural heir of the separate Telangana movement, TRS(Telangana Rashtra Samiti) has successfully and deftly managed the politics of the state meeting many expectations of the people. However, the state politics happens in the context of weak opposition and weak civil society to provide robust criticism of the development politics pursued by the TRS. Secondly the politics in the state is characterized by high stakes on symbolic capital and what is often glibly called as 'Telangana sentiment'. While the TRS government has so far met sufficient symbolic and emotional needs of the people, the real burden of raising the standards of living of the people and meeting the concrete expectations of the people, depends on going beyond mobilizing symbolic politics and translating the prolific promises made to people into reality. The state of Telangana is basically a small farmer dominated agricultural state with only marginal industrialization; and extreme prevalence of tertiary sector. In such developmental contexts it will be interesting to see how far the government of TRS can realize the promises it made to the people. Major challenges are lifting the standards and quality of life of agriculture based population, and developing manufacturing industry, which can divert educated younger population from agriculture to industry. These are the two concrete challenges that are going to test the limits of symbolic and identity politics of the present TRS government; though one can see that the government is definitely moving in the direction of meeting the above said needs.
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