By K. Lalitha, Susie Tharu, Uma Maheshwari, Rama Melkote and K. Vasantha

This is a translation of the Telugu book, Manaku Teliyani Mana Charitra, published by Kali for Women, New Delhi (1991). It is referred to and prescribed in curricula all over the English-speaking world. Sections have been translated into other Indian languages and two European languages.

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.

It was also entitled “We Were Making History”: Women and the Telangana Uprising, published under the collective name of Stree Shakti Sanghatana by Zed Books (1989).

ISBN-13: 978-0862326791