POLITICAL HISTORY ANDHRA PRADESH

Andhra Pradesh shot into international news when Bill Clinton, President of U.S.A. visited Hyderabad almost in the same way that it had been acknowledged as the land of Telugu speakers when N.T. Rama Rao, the cine star turned politician, was elected as its Chief Minister. This book traces the history of the British raj and the Nizam's rule before the Indian Independence. Covering a century of Political turmoil in Andhra Pradesh, it records the birth and death of the Justice Party, the genesis of regionalism, ethnicity and caste politics. In its depiction of the long rule of the Congress Party and the emergence of the Telugu Desam Party, it maintains an academically objective stance. It should interest the scholar, researcher and political observer alike in its faithfulness to fact.