@article {article754, title = {Bitter battle ahead in Telengana}, author = {}, journal = {Foundation of The Billion Press}, date = 2020-12-09, year = 2020, url = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/politics/bitter-battle-ahead-telengana-754, Abstract = {After the State of Hyderabad was forced to merge with India on September 17, 1948, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru also restructured the dominions of the Nizam. In a couple of years, Hyderabad was merged with the Telugu speaking area of Andhra, that had been earlier a part of the Madras Presidency under the British, to create Andhra Pradesh. } }