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Chapter Overview Map
Telangana Economy Timeline: from Hyderabad State to 2026
D.1 Master timeline
- Twelve phases on one timeline, each showing what changed and why it mattered to the economy.
- A legend of nine category markers (land, agriculture, irrigation, industry and others) for fast scanning.
D.2–D.4 Before the new State
- The Hyderabad State economy of tanks, tenures, railways and coal.
- The 1948 transition, and the 1956 merger into Andhra Pradesh with its regional development questions.
D.5–D.9 Thematic timelines
- Separate timelines for land reform, agriculture and irrigation, industry, liberalisation, and services and information technology.
- Each one keeps enactment, commencement and launch dates apart.
D.10–D.13 From 2014 onwards
- Telangana at State formation on 2 June 2014, with a small set of baseline numbers.
- Post-2014 milestones by theme, the State's policy successions and the few Union interventions that changed a sector in Telangana.
D.14–D.17 The big picture
- The long structural shift from farming towards services, and the changing role of Hyderabad.
- Fifteen turning points and where the economy stands at the 2026 end of the timeline.
Don't confuse
- An Act's enactment (assent) and its commencement (coming into force) can be years apart, as with the 1973 land ceiling law.
- A policy announced is not yet launched, and a project inaugurated is not proof that it is fully operational.
The branches follow the order of the sections. Notice that every period is read for its economic effect, not its politics.