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Public Awakening & Intellectual Reaction against Discrimination – Formation of Civil Society Organization, Articulation of Separate Telangana Identity

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Public Awakening and Intellectual Reaction

1.1Emergence of Intellectual and Civil-Society Mobilisation

Emergence of Intellectual and Civil-Society Mobilisation

  • The renewed Telangana consciousness from the late 1980s increasingly moved beyond electoral politics into journalism, research, student activism, literature, cultural expression and civil-society organisations.

  • The central themes of this mobilisation were:

    • Regional discrimination in education, employment, irrigation and electricity.
    • Economic and industrial disparities.
    • Protection of Telangana language and culture.
    • Preservation of tribal and regional rights.
    • Documentation of Telangana's historical experience after 1956.
    • Articulation of a distinct Telangana identity.

  • Civil-society organisations generally adopted three broad methods:

    1. Ideological propagation
    2. Agitation programmes
    3. Political process

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What Public Awakening & Intellectual Reaction against Discrimination – Formation of Civil Society Organization, Articulation of Separate Telangana Identity covers

  1. Public Awakening and Intellectual Reaction
  2. Telangana Information Centre and Telangana Information Trust
  3. Ma Telangana Newspaper — 1989
  4. Intellectual Influence on Student Organisations
  5. Telangana Mukti Morcha — 1993
  6. Telangana Praja Samithi Conference — 1994
  7. Pranay Bhaskar and Legislative Protest
  8. Turning Point: 1996
  9. Cultural and Literary Awakening — 1996–97
  10. Hyderabad Forum for Freedom of Expression — 1997
  11. Bhuvanagiri Sabha — 8–9 March 1997
  12. Centre for Telangana Studies — 1997
  13. Telangana Pragathi Vedika — 1997
  14. Regional Imbalances and Development Alternatives Conference — 1997
  15. Telangana Mahasabha — Suryapet, 1997
  16. Jai Telangana Party — 1997
  17. Telangana United Front — 1997
  18. Warangal Declaration — 28–29 December 1997
  19. Telangana Jana Sabha Revival — 1998
  20. Telangana Kala Samithi — 1998
  21. Telangana Students Front — 1998
  22. Telangana Studies Forum — 1998
  23. Telangana Jana Sanghatana
  24. District-Level Movement Platforms
  25. Irrigation as an Intellectual Campaign — 1999–2001
  26. Political Articulation Alongside Civil Society
  27. BJP and the Small-States Question
  28. Transition from Civil Society to Political Movement
  29. Organisation–Year–Role Map
  30. Important Publications and Cultural Expressions
  31. Major Declarations and Their Focus
  32. Intellectual–Cultural–Political Linkage
  33. Key Chronology
  34. High-Value Numbers
  35. Prelims Traps
All 27 chapters in Telangana Movement
  1. Telangana Society, Arts & Crafts
  2. Mulki Movement and Emergence of Mulki and Non-Mulki
  3. Hyderabad State in Independent India
  4. Formation of Andhra Pradesh – 1956
  5. Violations of Telangana Safeguards between 1956–1969
  6. 1969 Telangana Movement
  7. Major Events took place in 1970 and later period
  8. Court Judgements on Mulki Rules
  9. Jai Andhra Movement
  10. 6 Points Formula Program
  11. Article 371-D, Presidential Orders
  12. Officers Committee (Jaya Bharath Reddy Committee) Report – 1948
  13. G.O. 610
  14. J.M. Girglani Commission
  15. Naxalite Movement in Telangana, Anti-Landlord Struggle in Jagityala–Siricilla, North Telangana
  16. Rise of Regional Parties in 1980s and Changes in the Political, Socio-Economic & Cultural Fabric in Telangana, Suppression of Telangana Identity
  17. Economic Reforms in 1990 and their Consequences & Regional Disparities
  18. Quest for Telangana Identity – Intellectual Discussions & Debates – Political Ideological Efforts
  19. Public Awakening & Intellectual Reaction against Discrimination – Formation of Civil Society Organization, Articulation of Separate Telangana Identity
  20. Establishment of Telangana Rashtra Samithi in 2001, Political Realignment
  21. Role of Political Parties in Later Phase of Telangana Movement
  22. Cultural Revivalism in Telangana, Other Symbolic Expressions in Telangana, Literary Forms – Performing Arts and Other Cultural Expressions
  23. Role of Various Groups and Cultural Organizations in Changing the Struggle into a Public Movement
  24. Intensification of Telangana Movement, Forms of Protest and Major Events
  25. Parliamentary Process for the Formation of Telangana State, First Government of Telangana
  26. Andhra Pradesh Re-organization Act, 2014
  27. Committees Formed in Telangana Region during Different Occasions

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