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…

A Life of Ethnographic Discovery and Advocacy · From Vienna to Hyderabad · The Naked Nagas to The Raj Gonds · Adviser for Tribes and Backward Classes to the Nizam · Tribal Education and Land Reform · SOAS BIOGRAPHY · CHRISTOPH VON FÜRER-HAIMENDORF · 1909–1995 · Austrian anthropologist · Hyderabad State · Chenchus · Reddis · Raj Gonds · Apatanis · Sherpas · Nagas · SOAS Baron Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (22 June 190…

When Hyderabad's students challenged the Nizam · Osmania University · Vande Mataram · Student resistance · Expulsions · Nagpur migration · Hyderabad State freedom struggle DEFINING STUDENT MOVEMENT · HYDERABAD STATE FREEDOM STRUGGLE · November 1938 · Vande Mataram prohibited · Osmania University protest · Student expulsions · Action Committee · Migration to Nagpur Osmania University — an important centre of the 1938 Vande Mataram student movem…