Telangana
plateau is in western Andhra Pradesh, comprises of the northeastern part of the Deccan Plateau,
it has an area of about 57,370 square
miles, a north-south length of about 480 miles, and an east-west width of about
320 miles. Mentioned in one of the Ashoka's edicts, the region was successively
ruled by the Satyavahanas, Pallavas, Eastern Chalukyas, Kakatiyas, and the
Vijayanagar kings until it became part of the Qutb Shahi kingdom of Golconda.
It later came
under the rule of the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Hyderabad. Since the
establishment of the Indian Union in 1947, there have been repeated demands for
the creation of a Telangana state, separate from Andhra Pradesh. The recent political developments in Andhra
Pradesh has left no other alternative other than forming a new state of
Telangana.
Geologically,
the plateau is chiefly composed of Precambrian gneiss. Its senile plain is
marked by undulations, almost completely graded valleys, and monad rocks that
range from hill groups. The plateau is drained by the Godavari River taking a
southeasterly course; by the Krishna River, which divides the plateau into two
regions and by the Penneru River flowing
in a northerly direction. The plateau's forests are moist deciduous, dry deciduous,
and tropical thorn. Most of the population of the region is engaged in
agriculture; cereals, oilseeds, cotton, and pulses legumes are the major
crops. There are multipurpose
irrigation and hydroelectric-power projects, including the Pochampad, Bhaira
Vanitippa, and Upper Penneru.
Industries
located in Hyderabad, Warangal, and Kurnool produce cotton textiles, sugar,
foodstuffs, tobacco, paper, machine tools, and pharmaceuticals. Cottage
industries are forest-based timber, firewood, charcoal, bamboo products and
mineral-based asbestos, coal, chromite, iron ore, mica, and kyanite. There is a
dense network of roads, as well as railways and waterways; Hyderabad, capital
of Andhra Pradesh, is linked by air with major cities in India. The language of
the plateau is Telugu of the Dravidian family. The plateau's important cities
and towns are Hyderabad, Warangal, Kurnool, and Nizamabad.
Ms. Sonia Gandhi
promised the people to form a separate state of Telangana during one of her
election speech in Hyderabad and Warangal.
Hyderabad is one
of the most advanced Information Technology hub of the Country.
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