Telangana People's Struggle and Its Lessons

Telangana People's Struggle and Its Lessons
Author: Puccalapalli Sundarayya
Publisher: Foundation Books
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1972
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788175963160

Sri Putchalapalli Sundarayya (1 May 1913 - 19 May 1985) was a renowned national liberation fighter. He was one of the founders of the Communist Movement in India and an indefatigable fighter for the rights of toiling masses of India. He led the glorious Telangana peasant armed struggle in the 1940s against the despotic rule of Nizam of Hyderabad and liberated many from the shackles of servitude under Vetti. Sundarayya provides a detailed description of the intricacies - both decision-making and the execution of plans by the various guerilla squads. The book provides a ringside view of the movement of squads, the network of communications and the police terror. It highlights the movement, the years in the forests fighting the Nizam's forces and then the Indian army. It provides a wealth of detail and any account of the Telengana struggle is incomplete without reference to this authoritative work.

We Were Making History

We Were Making History
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

The "Telangana people's struggle," stretching from 1946 to 1951, was the armed rebellion of men as well as women against the oppressive policies of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Hyderabad was India's largest princely state with a population density, estimated above seventeen million. Curiously, almost forty percent of the whole population was then under the control of those landlords who mercilessly established their own feudal estates. The feudal network called for manual labor, including both men and women, in the context of the feudal business.

The University as a Site of Resistance

The University as a Site of Resistance
Author: Gaurav J. Pathania
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199093695

By raising a conceptual debate on ‘New Social Movements’, Pathania examines contemporary student resistance and analyses protest methods, strategies, networks, and the role of various caste, sub-caste groups, and civil society organizations in the struggle for social justice to envision a new cultural politics. The volume also discusses student activism in the aftermath of the suicide of PhD scholar Rohith Vemula at University of Hyderabad and the Azadi (Freedom) campaign at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The University as a Site of Resistance scrutinizes the debate on nationalism and processes of democratization of institutional spaces.

Dumbing Us Down

Dumbing Us Down
Author: John Taylor Gatto
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1550923013

With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).

The Telengana Movement, 1944-51

The Telengana Movement, 1944-51
Author: Barry Pavier
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House Private
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

On the peasant movements in the Telengana Region of Andhra Pradesh, with special reference to the role of the leftist political parties.

October Coup: A Memoir of the Struggle for Hyderabad

October Coup: A Memoir of the Struggle for Hyderabad
Author: Mohammed Hyder
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9351940276

It is 1948. A newly-independent India is trying to persuade Hyderabad to join the Indian Union. Negotiations are difficult for both sides. The State Congress, now operating from Indian territory, has launched a campaign of violent raids, designed to cripple civil administration in the border areas, and provoke an annexation. The leading Islamic party inside Hyderabad, in an equally rash move, has created a paramilitary body, the Razakars, to counter the threat to Hyderabad’s borders. For Mohammed Hyder of the Hyderabad Civil Service, the newly-appointed Collector of Osmanabad District (situated on the Hyderabad-Bombay border), both, the wayward State Congress and the ramshackle Razakar outfit are a threat to law and order. This first-person account conveys a vivid picture of Hyderabad under pressure, through the eyes of a senior district administrator.

Colonial Institutions and Civil War

Colonial Institutions and Civil War
Author: Shivaji Mukherjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2021-06-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108844995

Shows how colonial indirect rule and land tenure institutions create state weakness, ethnic inequality and insurgency in India, and around the world.