Gond tribal community — among the communities affected by land alienation and administrative change in Hyderabad State The vatandari system refers to hereditary village and local service arrangements associated with offices and rights known as watan . In Hyderabad State, hereditary village officials included important local functionaries such as patwaris , or village accountants, and patels , or village headmen. The precise legal and administr…

Bhairanpalli and the violence of the final phase of the Telangana Armed Struggle, 1948. Bhairanpalli Massacre of 27 August 1948 remains one of the most remembered episodes of violence associated with the final phase of the Telangana Armed Struggle and the political crisis in the princely state of Hyderabad. Bhairanpally, in present-day Siddipet district of Telangana , developed a reputation for resisting repeated attacks by forces associated with t…

Naxalite cadres in the forests of central India. Photo: AI Naxalism in Telangana emerged from the intersection of India's post-Naxalbari revolutionary politics, the region's earlier communist peasant tradition, agrarian inequalities and radical student mobilisation. During the 1970s and 1980s, revolutionary organisations established a powerful base in parts of Telangana, eventually developing into the People's War Group and later the …

Delhi Sultanate Campaigns Against the Kakatiyas (1303–1323) From Upparapalli to the Fall of Warangal · Khalji and Tughlaq Campaigns · The End of Kakatiya Sovereignty MILITARY HISTORY · KAKATIYA KINGDOM · 1303 · 1310 · 1318 · 1321–22 · 1323 · WARANGAL Warangal Fort – historic capital of the Kakatiya kingdom and principal objective of repeated Delhi Sultanate campaigns Between 1303 and 1323 , the Delhi Sultanate conducted a series of major military cam…