what is telengana ?

It literally means "land of telugus. Telangana region was mentioned in the Mahabharata as the Telinga Kingdom, which said to be inhabited by the tribe known as Telavana and said to have fought on the Pandava side.

Of the three regions of the state, Telangana has the largest area, with 1,14,800 km2.

A plateau of land in Andhra Pradesh state, Comprising the northeastern part of the Deccan plateau, has an area of about 148,000 square km, a north-south length of about 770 km, and an east-west width of about 515 km. Mentioned in one of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka’s edicts, the region was successively ruled by the Satavahanas, Pallavas, Eastern Chalukyas, and Kakatiyas and the Vijayanagar kings until it became part of the Qutub Shāhī kingdom of Golconda. It later came under the rule of the Nizam Shāhī dynasty of Hyderabad. Geologically, the plateau is chiefly composed of ancient Precambrian gneiss. The plateau is drained by the Godavari River taking a southeasterly course; by the Krishna River, which divides the peneplain 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; cereal grains, oilseeds, cotton, and pulses (legumes) are the major crops. There are multipurpose irrigation and hydroelectric power projects, Industries 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; The language of the plateau is Telugu of the Dravidian language family. The plateau’s important cities and towns are Warangal, karimnagar and Nizamabad.

The Telangana Telugus suffered a lot in muslim rule, where Urdu was taught forcefully at schools( though they are very few schools as such), Islam was the state religion and Muslims were considered as masters over the other religions, religious freedom was almost nil, worst form of feudalism being prominent in Nizam state and literally no efforts in social and cultural reformation as in Rest of India. Under these antipathetic and violent conditions ,the people were defensive and were Ignorant when compared to the outside world, but now, they are well educated and there are great educationists,poets, political visionaries who served the country very well .

In December 1953, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appointed the States Reorganization Commission to prepare for the creation of states on linguistic lines- known as the Fazal Ali Commission. unified Andhra Pradesh was established on November 1, 1956. However, a "Gentlemen's agreement" provided reassurances to the Telangana people as well to Andhra people in terms of power sharing as well as administrative domicile rules and distribution of expenses of various regions.

famous traditional telengana food :ethnic food such as jonna rottelu (jowar pulkas), jonna ghatka, bomme chapalu (traditional bomme fish curry), and the desi kodi (country chicken curry).
parkalu (small fish curry), royyala vepudu (prawns fry), ghatka ambali, jellala pulusu (small fish gravy), gudalu (the boiled grams) and pachi pulusu (tamarind mix gravy) .